Treading Water (Paperback)

Kay Brown, in her debut novel ‘Treading Water’, has written a strong, very readable, empathetic story exploring all these themes though the eyes of half-sisters Alison and Bridget. Now adults with their own families, the chasm between their lives has widened almost as much as the distance between Bridget’s South Africa and Alison’s Dallas, Texas. As children the two girls had strong bonds, their mutual father ensuring that his three children should spend quality time together. Alison, the child of their father’s second marriage - more indulged; Bridget and Justin coping with their increasingly chaotic and depressed mother. Alison’s talent for diving sending her from South Africa on scholarship to Dallas, where she eventually settles, marries and now has two small children. Bridget has her own teenage daughter and loving husband. But when Alison has a freak accident, is wheelchair bound, has thrown husband Tom out because of infidelity, the only person she wants to help her is Bridget. Sacrificing her own family holiday to fly across the world, the practical Bridget arrives to confront a taut situation. Does Alison really want the help or to settle some of the resentments built up over the intervening years?

Water is the element that is Alison’s safe haven. ‘Timing and focus’ her coach’s mantra, which seem to be an undercurrent of the story. Because everything we do is about timing; and that focus of listening carefully, hearing the meaning. Brown creates the two characters using different tenses which works well. She constructs their formative years to give the reader a strong foundation of the past influencing the present. Exploring the wave of emotions that threaten to engulf the half-sisters, she draws you in, surprises you.

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