Leap In A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim

Trials of learning a new sport when you've become ‘fit' doing a different one, light humour through personal embarassment (meh, not my cup of tea), a deeply personal story of grief that ends the book and then a little bit of history about open-water swimming and how to get started. I think I enjoyed her learning-to-run much more, but I still wish I could go spend a week swimming in Greece !

I would recommmend Jessica Lee's Turning: A Year in the Water over this if I'm going to vouch for a swimming book because it's written so beautifully.