Description
| Product ID: | 9780141988757 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Boy in the Water |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Gregory |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: sport, Autobiography: sport, Memoirs, Sports training and coaching, Swimming and diving, Memoirs, Sports training & coaching, Swimming & diving, United Kingdom, Great Britain, English Channel, c 1980 to c 1990 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating **Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year Award**A Sunday Times Book of the Year and Telegraph Best Book of 2018'Extraordinary' Clare BaldingThe poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became realityEltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from France to England. He has been in the water for twelve agonizing hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a second father. This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of childhood. **Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year Award** |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-06 |
