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The Swimming Pool

by Holly LeCraw
Kathe Mazur
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A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered—and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil's grown son, Jed, returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in years. One day he finds a woman's bathing suit buried in a closet—a relic, unbeknownst to him, of his father's affair—and, on a hunch, confronts Marcella. When they fall into an affair of their own, their passion temporarily masks the pain of the past, but also leads to crises and revelations they never could have imagined. In what is sure to be the debut of the season, The Swimming Pool delivers a sensuous narrative of such force and depth that you won't be able to put it down.

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  • Release date

    April 6, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307712288
      • File size: 323521 KB
      • Duration: 11:14:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Seven years ago, Cecil and Marcella had an affair. On the night Cecil ended it, his wife was murdered; a year later he was dead from a heart attack. Now Cecil's grown children, Callie and Jed, are at Cape Cod for the summer, along with Marcella's daughter, Toni, who's employed as a nanny. Jed and Marcella have an affair. Kathe Mazur plays it straight with this racy tale of lust, illicit sex, murder, and more lust. Mazur adopts authentic accents and tones for essentially unlikable characters--Italian Marcella is aloof and a bit throaty; Southern Jed is lustful and angry a good deal of the time. Minor characters are also distinct--college-age Toni is frustrated with her parents, and Callie is unable to cope with her unsmiling premature baby. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 7, 2009
      Strong writing keeps the reader sucked in to LeCraw's painful family drama debut. The lovely Marcella is reeling from tragedy; her ex-husband, Anthony, has sent Toni, their only daughter, away to boarding school and on to college. The man with whom Marcella had an affair, Cecil McClatchey, dies in a car accident soon after his wife, Betsy, is murdered. Amid the wreckage is Cecil's daughter, Callie, fighting for her sanity with two young children, and his son, Jed, who, desperate to fill the void left by the death of his parents, seeks answers from Marcella only to begin a tortured love affair with her as she drowns in guilt, struggling to find some meaning to hold on to. As Marcella comes closer to the truth about Betsy's murder and Cecil's death, and mindful that she is now the lover of Cecil's son, she struggles and fails to gather strength enough to make any decision, right or wrong. It is a story of deep and searing love, between siblings and lovers, but most powerfully, between parents and their children.

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  • English

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