Swimming<br/>is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf,<br/>but for many kids the local pool - whether it's an ocean, tidal or a<br/>chlorinated pool - is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of<br/>imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they<br/>are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology<br/>brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of<br/>childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well<br/>known and not-so-famous - including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell,<br/>Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.<br/>Evocative,<br/>funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their<br/>childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local olympic pool, bush<br/>waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful<br/>book.<br/>