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Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024

Grieving is weird and expensive.

Jamie can't swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she''s taking on her biggest fear the ocean.

With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, ''How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?''

Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones's searing debut How I Learned to Swim is ''funny with fear, liberating with grief'' (Fringe Review) and impossible to walk away from unchanged.

This edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhall's Roundabout, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.

How I Learned to Swim

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 8 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781350524491
      978-1350524491
      ISBN-10 1350524492
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024

      Grieving is weird and expensive.

      Jamie can't swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she''s taking on her biggest fear the ocean.

      With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, ''How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?''

      Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones's searing debut How I Learned to Swim is ''funny with fear, liberating with grief'' (Fringe Review) and impossible to walk away from unchanged.

      This edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhall's Roundabout, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.

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