Book description
She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing,
compact debut from an outstanding British writer.
This is a striking, supple and direct debut from an English writer that
both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual,
accomplished and saleable debut. It's a character piece, charting the
life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the
same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a world-class
swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting
haste… If taken on its own terms - as an intense and focused portrait -
it is simply staggering; a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed
with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it.
It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should. bill broady lives and
works in Yorkshire. This astonishing debut is the fruit of Littlewoods'
largesse. He has also written and published some poetry and short
stories in, amongst others, The London Magazine, Poetry Now, Sofa,
Printer's Devil, The Big Issue, Artscene and The Dalesman.
