Nicola Keegan Livres

For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.

Philomena, born into a bat researcher’s home and an eccentric family, struggles with her identity and a mother consumed by grief. As she discovers a new world in her school swimming pool, she embarks on a remarkable journey that leads her to Olympic gold and the brink of despair, but ultimately finds a way back.