An Open Swimmer Av Tim Winton

<p><b>Winner of the <i>Australian</i>/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton''s <i>An Open Swimmer</i> is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water.</b><br><br> A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed with their blood – could ever be broken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differences between them widening, sharpening their teasing words into something crueller and less easy to forgive.<br><br>‘Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics’ - <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p>