How to Breathe Underwater

Author: ORRINGER, JULIE

Fiction & related items

Published on 7 April 2005 by PENGUIN BOOKS (N/A).

Paperback |
196 x 130 x 16 | 172g

In her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and compassionate, she reminds us of those rare, exhilarating moments of victory.

'Unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives' Monica Ali, Guardian