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Swimming Lessons

By: Claire Fuller
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
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About this listen

Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides each in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter, she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan.

Twelve years after her disappearance, 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. Sexy and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious and complicated truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

©2017 Claire Fuller (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Marriage Swimming

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This is one of those books you either love or hate. I loved it! All the characters are flawed but are more believable for that. I'll be looking for more titles by Claire Fuller.

Riveting!

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Lovely concept, well written and brilliantly narrated. Looking forward to reading more Clare Fuller very soon!

Great!

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The idea of the story was good but the characters were pretty thinly drawn and a lot of the plot was very predictable. I did finish it but didn't care what happened in the end really.

Light read, pretty forgetable

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This was a thoughtful and well written book, with three dimensional characters, and a thread which was both credible and interesting.

The narrator was sympathetic.

Will look up other Claire Fuller books.

Unusual

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This grabbed me right from the start. Very few books when I don't use sleep timer and this was one of them as I just wanted to keep going to discover the outcome. Recommended.

Swimming lessons

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