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<p><b>''I didn''t want this book to end... Beautiful'' DAISY JOHNSON</b><br><b>''A natural storyteller'' PATRICK GALE</b><br><b>''A gorgeous folkloric novel of water and love'' ZOE GILBERT<br></b><br><b>London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he''s gone, or why.</b><br><br>In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty''s hunt for Joe leads to the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Beneath the water, there is a new kind of freedom. Above the water, a welcoming community of men offer refuge from an increasingly rocky home life.<br><br>Fourteen years later, a new revelation sees Matty set off alone in a campervan, driving westwards through Ireland, swimming its wild loughs and following the scant clues left behind about Joe. The trip takes a dangerous turn, and Matty is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers. But safety comes at a price, and with desire and fear running high, the journey turns into an explosive, heart-rending reckoning