TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Tom
TI  - A boy in the water
SN  - 9780141988757 (pbk.) :
AV  - GV838 
U1  - 920 GRE 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Gregory, Tom,
KW  - Bullet, John.
KW  - Swimmers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Long distance swimming
KW  - English Channel
KW  - Swimming coaches
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: London: Particular Books, 2018
N2  - Eltham, South London, 1984. The warm fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from France to England. He has been in the water for twelve agonising hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a second father. This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of childhood
ER  -