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The Resource Swimming Home, (electronic resource)

Swimming Home, (electronic resource)

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From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she's done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her. From the Trade Paperback edition
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eng
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Swimming Home
Title
Swimming Home
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Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she's done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her. From the Trade Paperback edition
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MacColl, Mary-Rose
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR9619.4
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Swimming
  • Women swimmers
  • Aunts
  • FICTION / Historical
  • Aunts
  • Swimming
  • Women swimmers
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Swimming Home, (electronic resource)
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Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn988759510
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781101993507
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
7062B48A-BED5-47D8-BB91-376D32AD9BC6
System control number
(OCoLC)988759510
Label
Swimming Home, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn988759510
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781101993507
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
7062B48A-BED5-47D8-BB91-376D32AD9BC6
System control number
(OCoLC)988759510

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