Night Swimming

Name: Night Swimming
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ISBN: 9781923058859

Sharon Kernot

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Text Publishing Company
02 June 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; Australian Fiction

A psychological thriller in suspenseful verse that grapples with trauma, desire, jealousy and twisted memory.

Tell me about your dreams about your sleep about your nightmares. Tell me everything, he says as he leans towards me, his eyes resting on my thighs.

January Clare Colson is longing for sleep, for release from the wakefulness that is consuming her, haunted by the tragic drowning of her best friend years ago when they were rebellious teens. She's a mess of pills and broken promises, swimming in desperation.

Then he walks back into her life, changed but the same, and the events of long ago take a new grip on her. She needs to know what happened. She needs to know him. To call him to account.

But her strategy is dangerous, obsessive, warped by insomnia and the intense power of thwarted desire.

January Clare Colson is standing on the brink of destruction.

Sharon Kernot's Night Swimming is a riveting psychological thriller that catapults the reader into the mind of a deeply tormented and vulnerable protagonist, blurring the boundaries between victim and aggressor with shocking effect.

'Tense, addictive and masterfully written - Night Swimming takes one woman's obsessive dream of revenge and makes it all too real and relatable.' Vikki Wakefield

'Kernot's choice of form feels fresh against the formulaic tendencies of the thriller genre...in an intriguing league of its own.' Books+Publishing

By: Sharon Kernot
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 361g
ISBN: 9781923058859
ISBN 10: 1923058851
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sharon Kernot is the author of three novels including two acclaimed YA verse novels, The Art of Taxidermy and Birdy. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in Australia and internationally. Sharon lives in Mount Barker, South Australia.