Books by Nicola Keegan
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review 1: Hard to rate. I give it a 5 for quality of writing and wit, a 3 for how dark it is. Perfectly captures mindset of someone who's using achievement to outrun the terror of death. But that is a hard space for the reader to inhabit without the promise of some meaning found in life by...
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review 1: I couldn't help but empathise with Philomena, and the theme is swimming is cleverly followed throughout. I found the end harder to read, but I understood why so stayed with it. This book carried me along, sometimes comfortably doing breaststroke, sometimes battering me and swee...
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review 1: This book is not about swimming, the sport. It is about swimming around in your own head as you deal with undiagnosed mental health issues. Sure, there are a handful of pool scenes. But nothing that resembles anything written by someone who has swam. Most of the book is comprised...