Ebook {Epub PDF} Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl

 · Home 1; Books 2; Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook - Digital original) $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. It takes the influence of enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to come to New York where Catherine can test her mettle against the first women in the world to swim the English Channel. And where, unexpectedly, Louisa can finally listen to what her own heart tells her. Swimming home a novel by Mary-Rose MacColl. 42 Want to read; 25 Currently reading; Published Written in English Subjects: Women swimmers, Teenage girls, Fiction; Edition Notes. Statement: Mary-Rose MacColl: Classifications; LC Classifications: PRM23 S95 The .

Well, it turned out that with Mary-Rose MacColl's Swimming Home, I had nothing to worry about. Yes, the book was about swimming and yes, the sport played an important role in the story, with the author even blending real life swimming history into the story (for example -- names of real swimmers with real achievements, real swim organizations. Mary-Rose MacColl is the author of six novels, a non-fiction book about maternity care issues, a book that tells a story from her own life, short stories, feature journalism and essays. Mary-Rose MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the Australian Vogel Literary Award. Books by Mary-Rose MacColl Mary-Rose MacColl Average rating · 4, ratings · reviews · shelved 19, times Showing 12 distinct works.

Winner of The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award, Swimming Home tells story of the real women who first set out to swim the English Channel in , and a young Australian swimmer from a remote island who joined them. Swimming Home is the beautiful story of two fiercely strong and determined women in their own right. In , fifteen year old Catherine Quick’s life is irrevocably changed when she must make the move from her idyllic island home in the Torres Strait, north of the mainland of Australia, to live with her Aunt Louisa in London. Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook - Digital original) $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book.