The Sea Sisters Swimming Club by Sue McDonagh

Fran is fifty and has just retired from the police force after an unexpected heart attack when dancing the night away with her work colleagues.

When the opportunity comes to house sit in Llanbryn, an idyllic seaside village in Wales she decides that's better than feeling sorry for herself and watching Homes Under the Hammer all day.

Being rudely awaken early in the morning she questions if the relocation was such a good idea...

Soon she's becoming more and more involved in village life and she is taken under the wing of the Sea Sisters, a group of inspirational women of all ages and sizes who swim in the ocean. They challenge her to move on from the past and face her life-long fear of the sea.

As Fran has never learnt to swim, her feisty elderly neighbour Elin sets her up with the good looking trouble maker Wyn as the swimming teacher. As they work together on a daily basis in a private (and heated!) pool, to get Fran ready for a swim in the sea, they both have to face their own demons.

The Sea Swimmers sounds like an amazing 'tribe' to be part of, although I am not at all sure about the sea swimming bit. The heated pool where Fran learnt to swim is more my cup of tea!

Thoroughly feel-good, showing that life after fifty and retirement at that doesn't have to be then end, but rather an opportunity to start afresh.

The Sea Sisters Swimming Club by Sue McDonagh will be published on 29 August 2023, but you can preorder a copy now. << LINK >>

PS. I seem to have picked quite a few books by Joffee Books / choc-lit recently and they have all been amazing and inspiring.

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