Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

A short novel about depression and mental illness, this book is well written and wonderfully descriptive but not very uplifting.  Two English families are on holiday in a French villa when a booking mix up results in a young unstable girl turning up on their doorstep.  They invite her to stay and this triggers the unravelling of relationships within and between the families.   I did enjoy this but it is dark and quite unsettling.

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