'Meredith Jackson is 17 when her father drowns in an accident at a Scout Jamboree. Mer is left to pick up the pieces with her mother and brothers and re-focus their lives. However, another tragedy is not far away and the family is in turmoil again.
'Mer’s mother, Annabel, is a celebrity from the golden era of Australian swimming in the 1950s. Annabel is the ‘darling daughter’ of the Windsor community west of Sydney. Her fame originates from a dramatic rescue from the June 1949 Hawkesbury River flood at [sic] she makes it into the final at Melbourne in 1956. But much of what happened in Finland remains unexplained.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
