num_pages: 165
description: Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable well-adjusted people. Set in a summer villa the story is tautly structured taking place over a week in which a group of beautiful flawed tourists in the French Riviera comes loose at the seams. Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
language: English
title: Swimming Home
publisher: And Other Stories