Swimming HomeSwimming 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 and a strong sense of what it means to be

Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser

Understanding the Tin Man presents a simple

Liesel steals books

On the morning of April 28

foreign contractors from the same company

Brilliantly argued

You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy

Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived

When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme

'Easily the best novel I've read this year' Nick Hornby

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