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The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club
Katie May

This novel has been published in three instalments - we are up to instalment 2 at present, with one more to come. An interesting way to publish, although I found the individual sections slightly too short to be fully satisfying, and I will probably read them through from front to back once I have all three. But I have enjoyed that feeling of getting a chunk in advance, not having to wait until the entire book has been written. I wonder also how much the feedback on the individual sections is affecting how Katie is writing the next one.

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These are my Goodreads reviews on the first two instalments:

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Part one: Diving In
I loved this book; witty, easy to read, set in today's world proper, not a fantasy where everyone is ok. Here people have problems they can't sort easily, they like people and dislike others, put up with some and tell others to shove it... It's short, but like Dickens, only the first instalment. I have been waiting anxiously for the next part to see how the Club settles down, and whether the Evil Dastardly Developers will get their own way...

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Part two: Undertow
Undertow - a fast riptide that takes you and pulls you along. There is no doubt that Debs and Maisie have been caught up in the undertow at the Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club! I have been champing at the bit waiting for the second instalment of this lovely, light story. And this hasn't failed. I gobbled it up in one fell swoop, reading in bed, wanting to sleep but refusing to put it down. The pace was fast, one thing happening after another, and I bowled along rolling my eyes at Deb and fearing for Maisie.

So now another break, biting my lip, waiting for the final instalment, with all the tangled plot ribbons to be neatly plaited for us. And the anticipation of Love and Happiness for all... Happy days!

 

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