A wide Suffolk sky above a sleepy backwater during an unusually sultry summer, sets the scene to bring together Ria - a poet - and asylum seeker Ben - the swimmer. A story that explores love and loss, tragedy and grief, crossing boundaries of age and culture. Narrated in turn by three women from different generations whose lives are touched, linked and changed forever by the swimmer. Beautifully written and intensely moving.
(Mary Standing - bwl 65 Summer 2012 ) |
