Swimming on the Moon
- Author Brian Conaghan
- Narrator Corrina Buchan
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours and 51 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Divorce, separation, family break-up, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings.
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What to expect
Twelve-year-old Anna’s parents are going through a rough patch, but Anna can’t let them split up. Not when it might mean living apart from Anto, her twin brother. Anto might be a boy, and he might not speak (except using Lego bricks), and he might carry a coat hanger about like it's his closest friend, but that doesn’t stop the two of them being like peas in a pod. It’s a twin thing, and nobody’s going to separate them.
So Anna hatches a plan: get the whole family on a plane to Italy. Her parents have always been happiest on holiday. How can they fail to fall back in love at a swanky hotel with an actual pool to swim in and everything!
But when Anna discovers more about why her family has grown apart, suddenly a happy holiday in Italy seems about as likely as swimming on the moon …
Critics Review
Conaghan, a beautiful writer who loves to surprise, takes this unlikely pair of cowboys on a road trip to the north of the country. And so Bruce becomes the father figure Lenny needs, Lenny the responsibility Bruce craves as their back stories get a slow reveal.
With the feel of a modern-day classic, this book will make readers cry but is also hysterically funny and life-affirming
This is an energetic charmer of a book
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