A review by harvio
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

4.0

- I enjoyed this story of a 23 year-old girl who is just on the verge of breaking up with her boyfriend of 9 years, when he breaks his back in a diving accident. Was he showing off for her? Did she somehow encourage the dive? How can she leave him now that he is a quadriplegic? What would everyone think? An excellent first novel - to be sure. Deservedly compared with both Jane Hamilton's 'A Map Of The World' and Jacquelyn Mitchard's 'The Deep End Of The Ocean'.