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Also by Allie Larkin:

Swimming for Sunlight, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Why Can't I Be You, March 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Stay, August 2011
Paperback
Stay, June 2010
Hardcover

SWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT
By: Allie Larkin

Atria Books
May 2019
On Sale: April 23, 2019
320 pages
ISBN: 1982112131
EAN: 9781982112134
Kindle: B07GNV9ZXX
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers—finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook.

Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog, Barkimedes. While she figures out what to do next, she heads back to Florida to live with her grandmother, Nan.

But Katie quickly learns there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Nan—like the fact that in her youth Nan was a mermaid performer in a roadside attraction show, swimming and dancing underwater with a close-knit cast of talented women. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes, but first, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water.

As Katie’s college love Luca, a documentary filmmaker, enters the fray, Katie struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety, and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own, in this thoughtful, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations.