Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club: A feel-good novel all about female friendship and community

The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club is a novel about the power of female friendship and the complexities of women's lives. It follows Deb and Maisie, who meet on Reeves Beach and form an unlikely friendship based on their love of swimming and their recent divorces. Other high tide swimmers join them, each with their own crisis to weather. When they discover plans for their beach to be paved over, they find a higher purpose that bonds them together and exposes their fragile worlds to public scrutiny.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Dive into THE WHITSTABLE HIGH TIDE SWIMMING CLUB - the irresistible, feel-good novel from Katie May.

Join Debs and Maisie, along with the high tide swimmers, as they make waves in life, love, and friendship.

Only the truly devoted manage to swim every day at Whitstable, as the sea is only deep enough at high tide. So, when Deb (clad in an aging bikini, adorned with sunglasses) and Maisie (dressed in a black wetsuit, paired with swimming shoes and goggles) keep encountering each other on Reeves Beach, they form an unlikely friendship, rooted in their shared love for swimming and their recent divorces.

They swim early in the morning and late at night, navigating through sea fogs, rain, and glorious sunny days. Soon, other high tide swimmers join them, each carrying their own crisis to weather. Ann, a bossy organizer, is caring for her elderly mother at home. Julie has somehow (although she's not quite sure how) managed to produce three children under school age. And Chloe, a bright, brittle girl of fifteen, finds solace in the water. Initially perceived as a peeping Tom, Bill is eventually welcomed into the heart of the club.

When the swimmers uncover plans for their beach to be paved over for a leisure complex, they find a higher purpose that unites them, and exposes their fragile worlds to public scrutiny.

THE WHITSTABLE HIGH TIDE SWIMMING CLUB is a book that delves into the profound power of female friendship, never losing sight of the intricate truths behind the lives of women who, from the outside, appear to take everything in their stride. It serves as a tribute to the author's hometown of Whitstable, where the sea is smooth, the shingle is painful on bare feet, and the air is brimming with endless possibilities.

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781409172383