num_pages: 304
description: If I'd blinked I would have missed it. But I didn't and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small wide-eyed human face in one tiny frozen moment as it plummeted toward the water.When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later she bobs to the surface pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into the distance she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile to shore towing a tiny passenger.Surprisingly he speaks only French. He'll acknowledge that his name is Paul; otherwise he's resolutely mute.Troy assumes that Paul's frantic parents will be in touch with the police or the press. But what follows is a shocking and deafening silence. And Troy a freelance writer finds herself as fiercely determined to protect Paul as she is to find out what happened to him. She'll need skill and courage to survive and protect her charge and herself. Sara J. Henry's powerful and compelling Learning to Swim will move and disturb readers right up to its shattering conclusion.
language: English
title: Learning to Swim
publisher: Crown