Book description
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. But as Olympic stardom
beckons, Pip must decide whether her future lies in the water or on
land.
Swimming
is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it
takes to survive. A significant, dazzling debut -- Kate Saunders The
Times [A] ravishing first novel...gorgeous New York Times Told with wry,
understated compassion, this engrossing novel ponders the challenges of
growing up gifted -- Hephzibah Anderson Daily Mail Keegan's vivid,
splashy prose and off-the-wall humour suit the story of the harrowing
traumas of an adolescence...Swimming's, moving, exhilarating story of
love, sport, triumph and loss is pretty much a winner -- Tina Jackson
Metro Keegan's shimmering, fluid prose is outwardly playful, yet this is
a seriously well-crafted novel -- Catherine Taylor Guardian Nicola
Keegan was born in Galway, brought up in America and now divides her
time between Ireland and France with her husband and three children. Swimming
is her first novel.
