The international bestselling debut about friendship and
love--featuring the life-changing relationship between an anxious young
reporter and an eighty-six-year-old lifelong swimmer that "follows in
the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove...charming
and heartwarming" (Kirkus Reviews).
We're never too old to make new friends--or make a difference.
Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life, but
everything is changing.
The library where she used to work has closed. The family grocery store
has become a trendy bar. And now the lido, an outdoor pool where she's
swum daily since its opening, is threatened with closure by a local
housing developer. It was at the lido that Rosemary escaped the
devastation of World War II; here she fell in love with her husband,
George; here she found community during her marriage and since George's
death.
Twentysomething Kate Matthews has moved to Brixton and feels desperately
alone. A once-promising writer, she now covers forgettable stories for
her local paper. That is, until she's assigned to write about the lido's
closing. Soon Kate's portrait of the pool focuses on a singular woman:
Rosemary. And as Rosemary slowly opens up to Kate, both women are
nourished and transformed in ways they never thought possible.
"Charming [and] an unusually poignant tale of married love" (The
Washington Post), Mornings with Rosemary is a feel-good novel that
captures the heart and spirit of a community across generations--an
irresistible tale of love, loss, aging, and friendship.
*Originally published as The Lido
