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These Heavy Black Bones
- Narrator
- Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 5 March 2015
- Run Time
- 7 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
'Poetic, candid and utterly compelling' - FREYA BROMLEY
'Absolutely remarkable' - LYNN BARBER
'Reads with the tension of a thriller, illuminating the world of elite sport' - CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'An embodied water odyssey' - LIDIA YUKNAVITCH
This is not a story about making history.
Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was once a double British Champion and the first Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. As her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press scrutiny and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca charts her career’s ascent and her singular love of the water, before explaining why she walked away from it all.
A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones meditates on Blackness, identity and the ecstasy of peak physical performance, and lays bare the pressures within the swimming world.
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Details
- Author
- Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell
- Narrator
- Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell
- Duration
- 7 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 March 2015
- ISBN
- 9781837261697
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Memoirs, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Trauma and shock, Swimming
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE'Poetic, candid and utterly compelling' - FREYA BROMLEY'Absolutely remarkable' - LYNN BARBER'Reads with the tension of a thriller, illuminating the world of elite sport' - CATHY RENTZENBRINK'An embodied water odyssey' - LIDIA YUKNAVITCHThis is not a story about making history.Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was once a double British Champion and the first Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. As her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press scrutiny and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca charts her career’s ascent and her singular love of the water, before explaining why she walked away from it all.A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones meditates on Blackness, identity and the ecstasy of peak physical performance, and lays bare the pressures within the swimming world.
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