The Swimmer by Roma Tearne

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimmer Author: Roma Tearne Narrator: Patience Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 14, 2010 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means. Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer. Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.