Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. Levy manipulates
light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we
recognize...the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent,
pulsating literary beast. --The Telegraph (UK)
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, 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?
A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the
most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.