
2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable well-turned-out people Set in a summer villa the story is tautly structured taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity technical brilliance & a strong sense of what it means to be alive Swimming Home represents a new direction for a major writer In this book the wildness & the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface With its deep psychology biting humour & deceptively light surface it wears its darkness lightly