The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming

by Therese Spruhan

Book Overview

Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool.

Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool - whether it's an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool - is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742236588
• ISBN13: 9781742236582
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Newsouth Pub.
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"