In at the Deep End

In at the Deep End is a novel celebrating the vibrant diversity of the Edgware Road area of London. It examines the relationships between fathers and their children and meditates upon how quick we are to judge others, yet how little we really know of them. The work is a literary study of loneliness and integration in modern-day London, told through the experiences of six disparate men, and the women who shaped them, whose lives intersect one unforgettable morning at a public swimming pool off the Edgware Road. Each character seeks freedom from life and clarity of purpose through swimming. The pool is a place where their bodies are exposed, but their minds remain hidden, and this dualism is at the novel’s core.