num_pages: 320
description: When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to boarding school it doesn't take her long to become part of the It Crowd. She's smart she's cute and she's a swimming prodigy who has a first-class ticket to any Ivy League school of her choice. But what her new friends roommate and boyfriend don't know is that Katie is swimming away from the secrets of her past and from the schizophrenic older brother Will who won't let her go. As Katie's star rises Will descends deeper into insanity. And when he does the unthinkable it's all Katie can do to keep her head above water. Largely based on the author's own experiences Breathless is a stunning debut that explores illness and health love and lust friends and enemies and the moneyed world of prep school with a deft expert hand.
language: English
title: Breathless
publisher: Walker Childrens