Mornings With Rosemary

The international bestselling debut about friendship and love?featuring the life-changing relationship between an anxious young reporter and an eighty-six-year-old lifelong swimmer that ?follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove?charming and heartwarming? (Kirkus Reviews). We?re never too old to make new friends?or make a difference. Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life, but everything is changing. The library where she used to work has closed. The family grocery store has become a trendy bar. And now the lido, an outdoor pool where she?s swum daily since its opening, is threatened with closure by a local housing developer. It was at the lido that Rosemary escaped the devastation of World War II; here she fell in love with her husband, George; here she found community during her marriage and since George?s death. Twentysomething Kate Matthews has moved to Brixton and feels desperately alone. A once-promising writer, she now covers forgettable stories for her local paper. That is, until she?s assigned to write about the lido?s closing. Soon Kate?s portrait of the pool focuses on a singular woman: Rosemary. And as Rosemary slowly opens up to Kate, both women are nourished and transformed in ways they never thought possible. ?Charming [and] an unusually poignant tale of married love? (The Washington Post), Mornings with Rosemary is a feel-good novel that captures the heart and spirit of a community across generations?an irresistible tale of love, loss, aging, and friendship. *Originally published as The Lido

Author: Libby Page

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019

Number of Pages: 336 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1501182056

ISBN-13: 9781501182051