Swimmer

Bill Broady

Took a few pages to get into this. Central character is a naïve teenage girl who is a brilliant swimmer, wins a gold medal and then suffers a rapid descent. Book ends tragically. Worth a read, particularly if, like Caroline, you enjoy books about swimming.
Caroline 21/1/01

Written entirely in the second person "you did this.you went there etc.." this is a story about a teenage swimming champion who sacrifices a huge amount of her social life to become good at her sport. This second person detachment worked quite well but what was not so good was that the male author didn't quite get the right feel about the lead character, mostly because of her gender, rather than her age.
Gill 25/2/01

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