'Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool – is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous, including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.
'Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'From the smell of chlorine to water bombing and a mixing of cultures – just some of reminiscences of 28 Australians in the book, The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming compiled by Therese Spruhan.' (Introduction)
'How timely is The Memory Pool, an anthology of recollections about swimming and swimming pools? Ambiguous summer looms, season of leisure and terror, but as temperatures rise we will be hankering for a refreshing dip and remembering swims from our past.' (Introduction)
'How timely is The Memory Pool, an anthology of recollections about swimming and swimming pools? Ambiguous summer looms, season of leisure and terror, but as temperatures rise we will be hankering for a refreshing dip and remembering swims from our past.' (Introduction)
'From the smell of chlorine to water bombing and a mixing of cultures – just some of reminiscences of 28 Australians in the book, The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming compiled by Therese Spruhan.' (Introduction)
