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The Swimmer
- Author
- Roma Tearne
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 14 October 2010
- Run Time
- 11 hours 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.
Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer.
Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.
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Details
- Author
- Roma Tearne
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Duration
- 11 hours 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 October 2010
- ISBN
- 9780007399154
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Romance, Autobiography: general, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Coping with / advice about loneliness / solitude, Water sports and recreations, Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Biography: sport
Synopsis
A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means. Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer. Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.
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