The Swimmer
- Author Roma Tearne
- Narrator Patience Tomlinson
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 14 October 2010
- Run Time 11 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Autobiography: general, Biography: sport, Coping with loneliness / solitude, Modern and contemporary fiction, Romance, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Water sports and recreations.
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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.
Critics Review
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n‘Readers of this novel cannot fail to be moved’ Spectator
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