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Warner
July 2004
Featuring: Charlotte Clapp
352 pages ISBN: 0446532533 Hardcover
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Contemporary Chick Lit | Contemporary
Sometimes you've got to change just to stay afloat... In the bestselling tradition of Good in Bed comes a funny,
touching, wildly entertaining novel that speaks to every
woman who's ever longed to take the plunge into a life
she's only dreamed of… NIGHT SWIMMING For too many years, quiet, unassuming, overweight Charlotte
Clapp has let life slip through her fingers. Holed up in
tiny Gorham, New Hampshire, gorging on bonbons and glued to
reruns of Magnum, P.I., she has made a habit of playing it
safe. But Charlotte is about to get a major wake-up call.
What was supposed to be a routine physical turns up
shattering news: Her days are numbered. In fact, she has
just one year left. How can she be dying when she has never truly lived? That's
the refrain that keeps running through her head. Unwilling
to waste another second, Charlotte walks into the First
Savings and Loan Bank where she's worked for fifteen years
and quits. Then she does the unthinkable: She robs the
place. Now two million dollars richer, Charlotte-all 253 pounds of
her-is going on the lam to discover what life and love are
all about. It's a journey she never envisioned-one that's
bound to be difficult, maybe painful, even lonely. Yet it
will transform her in the most unpredictable and
deliciously surprising ways. Arriving in Hollywood, Charlotte changes her name and buys
a luxury apartment, complete with expansive views, marble
foyer, and a blond, built, bronzed god of a pool boy. She
forges new friendships, falls in lust, and, on nights when
she can't bear the weight of her own thoughts, takes
moonlit swims. Soon something magical happens: In the
buoyant water of the pool, the pounds start to slip off,
and the real Charlotte begins to emerge. Then, just when Charlotte believes that the love and
happiness she's longed for are finally within reach,
reality intrudes. Back in Gorham, people have begun to
investigate the disappearance of both Charlotte and the two
million dollars. She's a wanted woman. But will she have
time to get what she wants before it's too late?
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Re: Night Swimming
I LOVED Night Swimming ! Read it several years ago and keep it with me all the time ! Please write another book !! I keep looking but I don't see anywhere that you have done another one. Hilarious and bittersweet ! Have given a copy to many friends! Let me know about any more coming! (Charlotte Minahan 7:22pm April 30, 2014)
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