Swimming Home: A Novel

From the bestselling author of In Falling Snow, a historical novel about a woman aspiring to be the first woman to swim the English Channel.

London 1925: Newly orphaned, young Catherine Quick is shipped across the ocean to live with her Aunt Louisa. All Catherine wants is to return home to the Torres Strait lslands in Australia and swim, just as she's done since childhood. But at fifteen, Catherine is no longer a child, at least according to Aunt Louisa, who plans to ensure her niece gets th...