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Penguin Books
June 2017
On Sale: June 20, 2017
432 pages
ISBN: 0143129961
EAN: 9780143129967
Kindle: B01N3TB2OS
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Historical
From the author of the international bestseller In
Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel
of a young woman swimmer in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel
once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into
the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and
swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned
and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels
that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for
women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young
niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as
she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds
it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It
takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to
convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where
Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the
English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to
what her own heart tells her.
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