Ryan, Eimear

Holding her breath / Eimear Ryan - India Penguin Books 2021 - 245 p.

When Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the ghost of her potential as a competitive swimmer. Free to create a fresh identity for herself, she finds herself among people who adore the poetry of her grandfather, Benjamin Crowe, who died tragically before she was born. She embarks on a secret relationship - and on a quest to discover the truth about Benjamin and his widow, her beloved grandmother Lydia. The quest brings her into an archive that no scholar has ever seen, and to a person who knows things about her family that nobody else knows.

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Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Grandparent and child
Grief

Fiction RYA-E