Swimming Home (2011)
by Deborah Levy
☆ Shortlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize
Deborah Levy’s novel Swimming Home was is set over the course of a summer in a French villa. Two families, made up of Joe and Isabel Jacobs and their daughter Nina, and their friends Laura and Mitchell, share the villa. They are surprised by the appearance of a stranger in their pool, Kitty Finch. Kitty is invited to stay and tensions swell. Each page presents some new secret, fear, insecurity, or deception.
