Swimming in the Dark: Selected for Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club 2024

Selected for Dua Lipas Service95 Book Club 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021A Guardian Book of the YearThe highest talent at work Sebastian BarryBeautiful ... A masterpiece Attitude Poland 1980. Shy anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz and together they spend a dreamlike summer falling in love. But with summer over the two are sent back to Warsaw. Confronted by the scrutiny intolerance and corruption of life under the Party Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive and in their different choices find themselves torn apart.An affecting and unusual romance ObserverA new classic Evening Standard A beautiful novel and at its heart an amazing love story BBC Radio 4 Open Book Editors Pick Jedrowski is an authentic new international star Edmund White A remarkable beautiful tale utterly new and entirely credible ... This book radiates sensuality humour and human truths Literary Review