Swimming Lessons

CLAIRE FULLER

Publication: Fig Tree, 2017, London

First edition. Inked signature on the title page from the author. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. The second novel by the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her.

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