Friday, 21 February 2025

Fig Swims the World by Lou Abercrombie

 



Ebook previously provided by NetGalley for review. Thank you.

4/5 stars

Fig Fitzherbert is a worrier. Her life is ruled by anxiety not helped by her controlling overbearing mother, known as Mubla. Mubla is constantly setting her goals and resolutions to complete and has a lot of rules.

Mubla's latest resolution is acting classes culminating in a stage role but the thought of speaking in public makes Fig throw up. She decides to set her own resolution! To swim the world! 20 open-water swims across 6 continents. There's just one snag - she can't swim yet!

I really enjoyed this and I really admired Fig's gumption and refusal to give up on her goal. I do think especially at the beginning Fig was a little blind to her privilege but she did realise and I appreciated how she got along mostly on her own.

I do wish there had been more of a confrontation with Mubla and the ending was very abrupt.

Steff Out x 

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