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Swimming Home | Mary-Rose MacColl | Salty Popcorn Book Review | Book Cover Image BY KATE DAWES The race is on for the first woman to swim the English Channel and best selling author Mary-Rose MacColl gives us an Australian in the race in her latest novel SWIMMING HOME, a story of two women who are joined together by family, tragedy and ambition but in personality are worlds apart.  · The book: Swimming Home by Mary-Rose Maccoll Published by Allison Busby, Pages: My copy: Library The blurb: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to strike out into the warm waters of her Australian home just as she's done since she was a tiny child. But now living in London with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Swimming Home: A Novel - Kindle edition by MacColl, Mary-Rose. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Swimming Home: A Novel/5(46).

Swimming Home - The Inspiration. by Mary-Rose MacColl. I'm interested in the way unexpected moments can turn us around and take us in a new direction, and it was this idea that took hold and became Swimming Home. I'm a swimmer and the courage and fortitude of the young women who first swum the English Channel impressed me. From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow. In , a young woman swimmer will defy the odds to swim the English Channel—a chance to make history. London Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she's done since she was a child. Swimming Home is the sixth novel by Mary-Rose MacColl, her previous book In Falling Snow was a favourite read of mine in Exploring the themes of family, belonging, regret, and redemption, Swimming Home is a gracious and engaging novel. When fifteen year old Catherine is orphaned, her aunt, Dr Louisa Quick, insists she abandons her idyllic.

Mary-Rose MacColl is the author of five novels, a nonfiction book, short stories, feature journalism and essays. Her first novel, No Safe Place, was a runner-up for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the Walkley awards for journalism. Brisbane based author Mary-Rose MaColl first caught my attention when I read her release In Falling Snow. Swimming Home is her latest release and a novel I whole heartedly endorse as a fantastic read from cover to cover. Swimming Home is the beautiful story of two fiercely strong and determined women in their own right. In , fifteen year old Catherine Quick’s life is irrevocably changed when she must make the move from her idyllic island home in the Torres Strait, north of the. SWIMMING HOME Author: Mary-Rose MacColl Allen Unwin RRP $ Review: Monique Mulligan Mary-Rose MacColl's novel In Falling Snow was one of my favourite books of “ a bittersweet, touching novel that ends with an uplifting element of hope.” The same words aptly summarise her latest novel, Swimming Home.