{"product_id":"swimming-home","title":"Swimming Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD’S AUTHOR OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Exquisite.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens...Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An excellent story, told with subtlety and menacing tension.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, France, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. A subversively brilliant study of love, \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51769026117848,"sku":"9781037802812","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781037802812.jpg?v=1780342059","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/swimming-home","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}