Swimming with My Father
About this book
'Exquisitely written and wonderfully readable - There are tears, laughter and filial tenderness on every page of Tim Jeal's perfect gem of a book.' Val Hennessy,
Daily Mail
An exquisite and moving portrait of a deeply eccentric father. Tim Jeal's beautifully nuanced memoir is by turns lyrical, poignant and gloriously funny.
'Jeal's prose is so sprightly, his interweaving of time-schemes so skilful, and his 'ordinary' story so touching that his book feels completely fresh - At its heart is an unusually engrossing account of parental oddity, marital resilience and filial complexity.' Andrew Motion,
Guardian
'This is a marvellous book: funny, vivid, immensely touching and beautifully constructed.' John Preston,
Evening Standard
'A pleasure to read: unpretentious, moving, full of jokes but also unobtrusively wise.' Anne Chisholm,
Sunday Telegraph
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Swimming with My Father
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTERTWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
