The Swimming Pool Season Author:Rose Tremain A love story in the very best sense of the phrase-a very good novel as well as an enjoyable one Literary Review — After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formula... more »te a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all.
Around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate fabric of the lives of two communities: Miriam's mother, Leni, clever, beautiful and arrogant. Polish Nadia, tortured by the passions of her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agn?s.
A patchwork of pain and longing stitched into a satisfying pattern by Rose Tremain's humour and depth of sympathy Mail on Sunday