The Swimming-Pool Library

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 2 July 2015 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages
203 x 133 x 27mm | 300g

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence.