PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Charles Sprawson is an obsessional swimmer and diver who has swum the Hellespont.
A wholly original idea...a brilliant translation of a singular passion -- Alan Ross * Times Literary Supplement * A devoted and luminously romantic history of swimming * Guardian * An exhilarating plunge into some of the deepest pools inside our heads... Magnificently obsessive, this social and cultural history of swimming is the best book I read this year -- J G Ballard One wants to put it down - and jump straight into the pool * Independent * Inspired by his own obsession with immersion, Charles Sprawson has written a mesmeric account, both sensual and erudite, of individual and cultural preoccupations with water. * London Evening Standard *
