Swell: A Waterbiography by Jenny Landreth has made the sevenstrong shortlist of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. The ‘Bookie Prize’ is sports-writing’s most prestigious prize.
Swell is both personal watery memoir and the story of the ‘swimming suffragettes’ – the women who took on the swimming status quo, fought for equal access, and won.
“Apparently, I wrote a ‘0immer at Tooting Bec Lido in south London.