Watermarks

Life, Death and Swimming

Lenka Janiurek author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Allison & Busby

Published:18th Mar '21

£8.99

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Watermarks cover

Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushes with both extreme wealth and poverty, Janiurek's rich and remarkable memoir is been a search for a kind of freedom, found in the comforting solace of swimming. Haunted by the despair, rage and addiction of men she has known best, she nevertheless explores and celebrates the beauty and pain of living life to the full. Watermarks is a stunning evocation of identity and alienation, and the restorative power of the natural world.

'An amazing piece of work.' - Kate Saunders

'Freighted with memory, Watermarks is as exquisitely constructed as a bowerbird's nest. Each word becomes a tile in a sparkling mosaic. It is a treasure of lived experience.' - Kate Norbury, author of The Fish Ladder

ISBN: 9780749025069

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Weight: unknown

352 pages