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    Swimming for Sunlight
    Swimming for Sunlight
    Swimming for Sunlight
    Audiobook10 hours

    Swimming for Sunlight

    Written by Allie Larkin

    Narrated by Madeleine Maby

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    When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers—finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook.

    Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog, Barkimedes. While she figures out what to do next, she heads back to Florida to live with her grandmother, Nan.

    But Katie quickly learns there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Nan—like the fact that in her youth Nan was a mermaid performer in a roadside attraction show, swimming and dancing underwater with a close-knit cast of talented women. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes, but first, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water.

    As Katie’s college love Luca, a documentary filmmaker, enters the fray, Katie struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety, and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own, in this thoughtful, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781508278726
    Author

    Allie Larkin

    Allie Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels, Stay and Why Can’t I Be You. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in the anthologies, I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship and Author in Progress. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husband, Jeremy, and their fearful, faithful German Shepherd, Stella.

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    • 5/5
      I am reading all of Allie Larkin’s books.This one did not disappoint. She’s an amazing author whose characters are relatable and lovable. The friendships in this one and the wonderful senior mermaids will stay with me for a long time.
    • 4/5
      A flawed heroine paired with an equally flawed dog isn't what you would normally expect for the beachy looking cover of this book. Kate is recently divorced and heads to Florida to regroup and live with her grandmother just like when she was a girl. When she arrives, nothing seems the same at first, grandma Nan is on a health kick, her best friend Bitsie just lost her partner and the dog Bark is just shy of losing it all the time. Kate's anxiety and panic attacks, particularly around water don't help, but soon she settles into a project. Her own grandmother and friends were part of a roadside attraction back in the day as mermaids, floating in a tank off the interstate. That sparks a feeling of purpose in all involved, as they track down their other friends and Kate gets to peek into their old lives and learn more about them. Kate finds it hard to step back from everyone else's stresses and things get magnified in her mind very quickly. I really liked the way the generations interacted with each other.