Current read

We’re not actually reading this book for Book Club, even though several members have read it and loved it. It’s only available in hardback and is extremely popular at present, doing the rounds of Book Clubs, so in the Cincinnati Public Library system, there are over 1300 hold requests on it! So I decided to buy it - even on Amazon there was a delay of a couple of days!
“For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl.
But Kyla is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand...”
(From the slipcover)
Delia Owens, the author, has previously co-written non-fiction books on her experiences in Africa, where she lived in the wild for decades while studying lions, brown hyenas and elephants in their natural habitats, but this is her debut novel. I’m currently almost a third of the way through the book, and I would thoroughly recommend it - it’s beautifully written!
Swimming for my exercise today - 60 laps! Given the temperatures, around 90 again, it would have been really nice to use the outdoor pool, but unfortunately that’s no longer open for the public, though I believe the swim team continue to use it for a few more weeks yet. When I first walked in the building, I thought the pool must be closed - there was no one in it, and the water was undisturbed, and the lifeguard wasn’t in his chair! Fortunately, however, it was open, just really quiet!