TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacColl,Mary-Rose
TI  - Swimming home
SN  - 9781760113315
AV  - PR9598.M2593 S95 2015
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Crows Nest, New South Wales
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Swimmers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Nineteen twenties
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Swimming
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Aunts
KW  - Women swimmers
KW  - fast
KW  - London (England)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Australian
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N2  - The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl, wasn't Oxford or Cambridge, wasn't a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was Catherine...It's 1925 and 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 and swim, as she's done since she was a tiny child. But now, with her recent move to London where she lives with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away...Louisa, a busy, confident London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds definite views on the behaviour of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she did, to ensure her future freedom. Since Catherine arrived, however, Louisa's every step seems to be wrong and she is finding it harder and harder to block painful memories from her past...It takes the influence of enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to come to New York where Catherine can test her mettle against the first women in the world to swim the English Channel. And where, unexpectedly, Louisa can finally listen to what her own heart tells her...Like Mary-Rose MacColl's bestselling novel, In Falling Snow, Swimming Home tells a story of ordinary women who became extraordinary
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