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The Swimming Pool: From the author of ITV’s Our House starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton

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A leafy London Lido in summer, what’s not to like? It offers escapism to protagonist Natalie, a middle aged school teacher longing for some excitement. She has a comfortable yet mundane life with husband Ed, and teenage daughter Molly. Ed a maths teacher who likes to plan life to the last detail, and Molly who suffers from Aquaphobia which intensifies her teenage angst. The lido is perfect place for some time away from it all, and is the place her life changes when she meets the glamorous Lara Channing; one of life’s original golden goodtime girls. Lara is everything that Natalie is not yet aspires to be, but more than that, it’s not just her hair and skin the colour of spun gold, her heart is pure 24 carat too. To Natalie’s amazement she is befriended by Lara and accepted into her inner circle, and is living the life she has always dreamed of. However, whilst covetous Natalie is basking in her new found glory her old life slowly starts to fall apart, and she is haunted by old memories of a childhood summer she had previously buried away. Is it purely coincidence or is there something more sinister afoot? A bit about me: I live in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the one in my books, with my husband, teenage daughter, and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie who is the apple of my eye. Books, TV and long walks are my passions - oh, and drinking wine in the sun with family and friends. My favourite authors include Tom Wolfe, Patricia Highsmith, Barbara Vine and Agatha Christie. FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/10/2018 Suburban, exotic, utterly private, boisterously public, a threat or a blessing: 'The Swimming Pool in Photography' This 1962 photograph of Blandine Fagedet, winner of a women's diving contest, plunging into the Piscine Georges-Vallery in Paris, is reproduced from Unexciting Ed despairs and resents his wife for leaving their old stodgy and judgemental friends to swan of with the libertine couple Lara and Miles, who have a secret past. When previously staid, middle-aged teacher Natalie Steele hears that the swimming pool near her home has been renovated, she’s anxious. Her daughter Molly has an extreme water phobia after all and a pool isn’t going to help. But, all too soon she is drawn to it, to the exclusion of pretty much everything and everyone else, well everyone that is except her new best friend Lara. Lara Faulkner is confident and glamorous as befits her former life as an actress, and the more sceptical in Natalie’s circle wonder what the attraction is? The fact that from Natalie’s perspective that there is an attraction is not in doubt! As the summer holiday unfolds Natalie begins to question all that she held most dear and for a while, wishes that the summer could last forever!This centre has implemented a cashless system. This has significantly reduced queuing times and improved customer service. I saw this book and it immediately drew me in. The front cover is so enticing and it sounded an intriguing book. Well, every day I was anxiously waiting for the moment to immerse myself in it to find out what would happen next.

The two women forge a tight friendship and their two teenage daughters Molly and Georgia also become friends with the former idolising the older and prettier latter. The narrator, Natalie, is one of those people that make you wonder whether she's actually a nice person or not. Though she's not part of Lara's gang of high class, incredibly rich socialites, she really, really wants to be. She seems to look up to them so much, and this desperation, coupled with the way she treats her family and friends in trying to get closer to Lara, makes people turn against her. We also learn about a chequered past many summers ago, and though Natalie seems the most remorseful of the two, she's certainly no angel. It suited her, however. It grew out into small blond curls all over her head, and she hated wetting it. Then, too, she swam badly. She could ride well. She could play the piano magnificently, but she hated the water. She was always afraid of the water. Perhaps that excuses her for what happened years later."There are very few modern books that can get away with this, but in Rinehart I adore it for some reason, and that's the "had I but known" style! "If I had only known what was to happen next." "The next day revealed my mistake." "That night was the last time I would...." It's so dumb, but in Rinehart, I lap it up and love it! On the train, Will cruises a young man whom he takes home; they engage in sexual intercourse. He begins to read Charles's papers. The constraints of her teaching career, her drab flat in the wrong part of Elm Hill along with the habitual preachiness of her maths teacher husband Ed make Natalie vulnerable to the attentions of local celeb and sophisticate Lara, who lives in the best street in Elm Hill (overlooking the lido), speaks in a louche throaty drawl (well, she did in the audio book) and dresses like a diva. In contrast Natalie is plainish with a large birthmark, which has made her insecure about her appearance. The characters are well built and the plot is never boring, although there is little action. In retrospect, I realise that this novel is characterized by a very well defined structure that allows the reader not to lose themselves in its three timelines.

The location is slightly different. This time instead of a street, the novel is based around a public swimming pool. Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote mystery novels and other forms of fiction and non-fiction, between 1908 and the mid 1950s. I'm not sure how I discovered her, possibly through my mother? I got my hands on Rinehart's novel "The Album" when I was a teenager, and fell for it with every fiber of my Agatha Christie-obsessed nerdy little heart. The Album opens with an ax murder that happens in broad daylight in a home on a street mostly inhabited by families who still live as if it's 1897, though in the book it's more like the 1920s. I love The Album so much!

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Moreover, the ending is the most beautiful thing in the book and made me decide for five stars, instead of the four deserved by the rest of the novel, especially because of the way it creates a parallelism between mother and daughter. Hello and welcome! I am the bestselling author of 16 novels - a fact I can't quite believe myself - and my books are published all over the world. My brand-new thriller THE ONLY SUSPECT is out now and described by the Daily Mail as 'a perfect mix of nostalgia and menace'. Charlotte's character kept mixing fantasy and reality. Although in Swimming Pool, everything related to fantasy is part of the act of creation, so it is more channeled and less likely to end up causing madness. In terms of directing, I've treated everything that is imaginary in Swimming Pool in a realistic way so that you see it all – fantasy and reality alike – on the same plane. [5] Release [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] While I was reading The Swimming Pool I constantly felt ill at ease. I loved how Louise Candlish manages to keep a constant level of tension and suspicion. The Swimming Pool is a book filled with secrets, unreliable characters and fascinating events. Something has happened and it's slowly being revealed. Everything in this story is exactly as it should be and it's the preciseness that makes this book so incredible. Louise Candlish has a great sense of timing and she delivers exactly when the story requires it.

The Swimming Pool is a novel that oozes summer. Everything from the rising temperatures to the decreasing inhibitions of the main character makes Louise Candlish’s novel one that is best enjoyed sitting on a beach with the sun beating down and the sound of the surf roaring nearby. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it now we’ve moved to the other side of those heady days, either. Take away the summer glamour and The Swimming Pool becomes a dark and chilling thriller about hazy judgements and their inevitable fallout, which is certainly worth your time and attention. In The Spell, Alex – who has "contracted the occasional ailment of the late developer, an aversion to his own past" – recalls his horror of the country town in which he'd grown up, with its "old outfitters selling brown and mauve clothes [and] photos of fetes and beauty contests and British Legion dinners in the window of the newspaper office, which might almost have been the window of a museum". He also tenderly recalls the solitary child's "taste for lonely places", playing hide and seek alone. "It can't be hide and seek if no one's coming to look for you, darling," his mother tells him. "It's just hide." Hollinghurst enjoyed his time at Canford, and wrote enthusiastically about it in the old boys' magazine, the Canfordian, a couple of years ago, recalling with affection two teachers who had opened his mind to poetry, painting and architecture. The critic Peter Parker, who was at school with him, says he "never thought of him as a boy – he always seemed old". Parker recalls that Hollinghurst had a self-deprecating manner and even then his trademark bass voice, and that the poetry he wrote for the magazine Parker founded was mature and fully formed: "I am rather proud to have been his first publisher." The opening of the new lido also opens up new and unexpected opportunities for the Steele family. Natalie meets Lara, the beautiful, rich, glamorous woman who was the driving force behind the re-opening of the abandoned pool. Lara and her friends inhabit a new and totally alien world, one that Natalie always scorned before, but there is something about this bright, glittery woman and her bohemian lifestyle that draws Natalie in, and it's not long before she is basking in Lara's shadow, teetering on the edge of the group, abandoning her old friends, and appearing to betray her long held beliefs and principles.Iqbal, Sarmad (4 April 2020). "Seven Binge Worthy French Films to Get You Through Self-Isolation". Archived from the original on 23 April 2020 . Retrieved 4 April 2020. But is such a change in fortunes too good to be true? Why are dark memories of a summer long ago now threatening to surface? And, without realizing, could Natalie have been swept dangerously out of her depth?

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