13-08-2004, 02:07 PM
It has been ages since I posted in the Book club ! I have been reading - just not posting.....:p
I have taken this book out the library and did not know that she was the same author who wrote all the Shopaholic books.
Swimming Pool Sunday
Madeleine Wickham
From the Back Cover
On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys opened their pool to all the village for charity. Louise was there, so were her daughters Amelia and Katie - and so, glaring at her resentfully, was her estranged husband Barnaby. This was supposed to be his day with the girls. But Louise ignored his angry glowers - it wasn't her fault they'd wanted to come swimming with her, was it? While the children splashed and shrieked in the cool, blue waters, she lay blissfully back in the sun and dreamed of Cassian, the charismatic new lawyer in her life. The day seemed perfect.
But suddenly the perfect day was shattered, as tragedy struck. And the consequences of a terrible accident developed into a drama of recriminations, jealousy and legal power-play, in which Louise found herself pulled in three directions all at once. Friendships crumbled, the village was split, and the needs of a child became secondary to the dangerous contest in which the grown-ups were engaged.
I will let you know what this book is like as soon as I have finished it !
I have taken this book out the library and did not know that she was the same author who wrote all the Shopaholic books.
Swimming Pool Sunday
Madeleine Wickham
From the Back Cover
On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys opened their pool to all the village for charity. Louise was there, so were her daughters Amelia and Katie - and so, glaring at her resentfully, was her estranged husband Barnaby. This was supposed to be his day with the girls. But Louise ignored his angry glowers - it wasn't her fault they'd wanted to come swimming with her, was it? While the children splashed and shrieked in the cool, blue waters, she lay blissfully back in the sun and dreamed of Cassian, the charismatic new lawyer in her life. The day seemed perfect.
But suddenly the perfect day was shattered, as tragedy struck. And the consequences of a terrible accident developed into a drama of recriminations, jealousy and legal power-play, in which Louise found herself pulled in three directions all at once. Friendships crumbled, the village was split, and the needs of a child became secondary to the dangerous contest in which the grown-ups were engaged.
I will let you know what this book is like as soon as I have finished it !
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the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss
"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
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