The Swimming Pool: From the author of ITV’s Our House starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton

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Swimming Pool (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 19 June 2003 . Retrieved 23 August 2021. Here I'm going to repeat some of my review of "The Great Mistake" by the same author, but only some! Will goes to an exhibition of photographs by Staines. The theme is soft-core homo-erotica. He is surprised to find Gavin there. Talking with Staines, he discovers that he and Charles have produced three pornographic films of the type that play in the cinema where Will first had sex with Phil.

This is the second book I've read by Louise Candlish and she has a highly readable style that pulls you right in. However the storyline in this instance is less compelling than in "The Sudden Departure of the Frasers". It takes a very long time to get going. The tension simmers along but not a lot happens until the final third of the book. In the final third there are pleasing twists and discoveries, but you have to be patient to get to them. I suspect that Candlish realised this problem and that's why she added the prologue which is (minor spoiler, minor spoiler) highly misleading and really annoyed me when I realized how it fitted into the story. Hollinghurst's large flat, spread over three floors, overlooks the southern edge of Hampstead Heath. He lives alone – he generally has, though there have been "periods of experiment" with live-in partners – and the flat feels monastic. "I'm not at all easy to live with," he says. "I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. I could when I started. I suppose I had more energy then. Now I have to isolate myself for long periods. It's all become more of a challenge. I find writing novels gets harder and harder, which is not what I thought would happen. I thought you'd learn how to do it."It was a good story, but I struggled with keeping up with the different time scales throughout it. The ending was good, with an unexpected twist, but I did find that it took a bit too long to get to it, with the middle of the story a bit too long and drawn out for me. By the same author: The Sudden Departure of the Frasers is also set in leafy suburbia, and has a mystery at its heart. The Heights is a story of a mother taking revenge for the death of her only son. There is a good dose of mystery in The Swimming Pool; from wondering what exactly happened those many summers ago when Natalie was younger, to trying to figure out exactly why Lara seems to interested in Natalie (and many twists and turns along the way), the story keeps you guessing and I really liked that. It managed to do all this without compromising on the quality of writing, meaning I really enjoyed this book. A great summer read!

Don't get me wrong, there's lots to like, it's just spread too thinly over the course of the book, so I'm giving this a low rating because I really had to slog through (but I really wanted to know the ending, so Rinehart was at least doing something right. What ties the books together is a shared delight in that moment of piercing the water, diving, running, or easing in – that moment of glorious submersion. If you’re not by a beach this week, they all offer something of the joy you’re missing.

This is a highly original memoir from a Canadian swimmer who made the Olympic trials, but not the Olympic team. She’s also an art editor and graphic novelist, and includes some of her own paintings and photographs of her many swimsuits, which give this book a different texture and flavour. It’s included here in part for personal reasons. She mentions former Canadian Olympian Victor Davis, who I had the good fortune of meeting as a young swimmer: I swam for the same club as he did and when our practice times overlapped, he kindly signed my swim cap. Upstairs, he discovers Phil having sex with Bill. Disoriented, he leaves and wanders to James's and then the Corry, where Charles Nantwich reveals his designs in giving Will the diaries. Will and James go to Staines's to see a film, not a piece of pornography but an archive recording of Ronald Firbank in old age. The novel closes. On the train, Will cruises a young man whom he takes home; they engage in sexual intercourse. He begins to read Charles's papers.

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