From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.
In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night… (more)
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Whenever the pace of the novel feels poised to accelerate, Murphy inserts ten completely dispensable pages of miscellaneous observations about swimming or life or things in general.
Yannick Murphy’s novel about a swim mom and a serial killer works surprisingly well.
This is the Water is an intriguing study of character, and of form, and it's those two things that should have you diving to read it.
Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 29, 2014)
Language: English