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A review by ohsoreads
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
5.0
A dying writer sees his dead wife standing at the pavement in the rain and calls out to her. A swift motion and Gil falls in slow-motion, injured in the process. Nan calls her sister, Flora, to inform her of the incident. On the next train, Flora makes her way back home. The Swimming Pavilion; home to Flora, Nan and Gil Coleman. Previously home to Ingrid as well.
"Without readers there is no point in books, and therefore they are as important as the author, perhaps more important. But often the only way to see what a reader thought, how they lived when they were reading, is to examine what they left behind."
In an attempt to reach out to her husband, Ingrid writes letters and hides them in between the thousands of books that Gil has. The letters were filled with moments of their marriage -- the start of it, the breaking points and the last of it. Although Flora never truly accepted her mum's disappearance (later ruled death), she finds out the truth through those hidden letters; the same ones that Ingrid thought Gil never read.
My heart shattered upon reading Ingrid's letters. She was young but determined enough to make Gil Coleman hers. She thought her love would be reciprocated, for him to make her his one true love as well. But it was never enough for him. How could he? Did his apparition of Ingrid occur out of guilt? That he was sorry for leaving her? She gifted him everything and showered him with support yet all he gave her was heartbreak after heartbreak. Men need to learn how to keep their business in their pants and not fling them whenever it suits them.
"Without readers there is no point in books, and therefore they are as important as the author, perhaps more important. But often the only way to see what a reader thought, how they lived when they were reading, is to examine what they left behind."
In an attempt to reach out to her husband, Ingrid writes letters and hides them in between the thousands of books that Gil has. The letters were filled with moments of their marriage -- the start of it, the breaking points and the last of it. Although Flora never truly accepted her mum's disappearance (later ruled death), she finds out the truth through those hidden letters; the same ones that Ingrid thought Gil never read.
My heart shattered upon reading Ingrid's letters. She was young but determined enough to make Gil Coleman hers. She thought her love would be reciprocated, for him to make her his one true love as well. But it was never enough for him. How could he? Did his apparition of Ingrid occur out of guilt? That he was sorry for leaving her? She gifted him everything and showered him with support yet all he gave her was heartbreak after heartbreak. Men need to learn how to keep their business in their pants and not fling them whenever it suits them.