Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year AwardA Sunday Times Book of the Year and Telegraph Best Book of 2018Extraordinary Clare BaldingThe poignant, lifeaffirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a recordbreaking 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. Fastforward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and greasesmeared 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.

Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: BGSA; Weight: 292 g; Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 19

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