Swimmers' Rope

Fiction & Literature, Historical
Cover of the book Swimmers' Rope by Stephanie Johnson, Penguin Random House New Zealand
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Author: Stephanie Johnson ISBN: 9781869792411
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks Language: English
Author: Stephanie Johnson
ISBN: 9781869792411
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
Language: English

A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor.

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A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor.

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