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The Swimming Pool

By: Louise Candlish
Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
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GRIPPING, TWISTY PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM THE AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE OTHER PASSENGER

One summer can change everything . . .

In the heady swelter of a suburban summer, the Elm Hill lido opens. For teacher Natalie Steele, the school holidays are always spent with her husband Ed and daughter Molly. But not this year. Despite Molly's extreme phobia of water, Natalie is drawn to the lido and its dazzling social scene, led by glamorous Lara Channing. Soon she's spending long days with Lara at the pool and intimate evenings at her home. Real life, and the person she used to be, begins to feel very far away.

But is the new friendship everything it seems? Or has Natalie been swept dangerously out of her depth?

'Exquisitely written and addictively dark. Sheer perfection' Clare Mackintosh, author of Let Me Lie

'A compulsive psychological thriller that will give you the shivers' Sunday Mirror

'Clever, claustrophobic' Fabulous

'Tautly plotted - a psychological drama with edge' Good Housekeeping©2016 Louise Candlish (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction
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I am fast becoming a devotee of Candlish this is my third of her books and I seem to enjoy each one more. There is a similar premise behind all I have read and that is portrayed in the characters Glimpsing some alternative existence that is both seductive and toxic. I love the way candlish uses buildings and neighbourhoods to create this and the way she populates her books with such exotic and ordinary characters juxtaposed together to play off each other. This book was very clever and the end twist totally unexpected. I also enjoyed the narration which was perfect in tone and intensity. I would easily recommend this book.

Throughly entertaining and beautifully written

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The narrator has a very pronounced lisp and it’s very distracting. Ruins the book for me.

A very obvious lisp from the narrator

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I had high hopes for this book, after reading many of LC's other work. However, although the story started of good, the mysteries and the conclusions never really developed. Left me dissatisfied and disappointed with the ending.

The story never quite took off

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I Just loved it! A nicely Different take on the genre, the characters were very compelling :) it kept me guessing till the very end.

Loved it

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Read it in two days. Absolutely loved it. A great holiday read. Would highly recomend.

Brilliant

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