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The Mortified Podcast

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The Mortified Podcast is a storytelling series where adults share the embarrassing things they...

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William Steig | 2003 | Children

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"This is another book from my childhood that I love and cherish. The simple use of letters as words delighted me as a child and continues to as an adult as I am now quite adept at texting and utilize a lot of Steig in my texts, tweets and ‘grams."

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Swimming Lessons in Books

Jul 24, 2017

Swimming Lessons

Claire Fuller | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

6.8

(9 Ratings)

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Great series of letters let down by monotony

Claire Fuller's writing is poetic and haunting in this novel especially as we read a series of letters left by a wife who has been missing for 12 years.

The story surrounds Ingrid, and her horribly destructive relationship with her writer husband Gil. Her youngest daughter Flora has to come to terms with these revelations, after idolising her father for so long.

My only concern is while the back and forth narrative between Ingrid's letter and the present day is well laid out, the story itself becomes lacklustre and the epilogue is a little misleading leaving a question mark over her death. Good writing but plot could be more rich.