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June 22, 2017
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, June 23rd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of SWIMMING HOME by Mary-Rose MacColl, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
SWIMMING HOME by Mary-Rose MacColl
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.
- Click here to visit Mary-Rose MacColl's website.
Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Friday, June 23rd.
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