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{{newreview<!-- Landreth -->[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|authorleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]] === [[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|titlelink= Swell|Category:{{{rating= 5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|genre= Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] |summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''.[[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonukbr>}}
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