Awards

• Short-listed for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2013
• Shortlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2013.

Overview

Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.

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Reviews

'Levy has made something strange and new ... the reader closes Swimming Home both satisfied and unnerved.' The Guardian----------'Levy is an exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield.' Sunday Times----------'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson----------'This is a prizewinner.' The Independent----------'Magisterial.' Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of six novels, Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); and Swimming Home (2011), which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize as well as the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. Deborah is also the author of a collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), which was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC. Her latest novel, Hot Milk, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

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