Half Swimmer Kids25 Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship

and her signature laugh is now recognized as a feminist call to arms

' Independent From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People

[for] anyone interested in history

being both epic and relevant

Half Swimmer Kids25 Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipHalf Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn't yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to