A charming feel good book about friendship and community pulling together over an issue which affects them all. Touchingly written with characters one can easily identify with where friendship can be found between diverse people in big cities where loneliness often prevails but united in a common cause giving a city area a village feel. Kate is a young, lonely, journalist lacking in confidence, who is finding it difficult living in London but, after her editor gives her a story about closure of the local lido, she gets to know her neighbours and in particular Rosemary an elderly widow. The tale is easy to read and sensitively written and moves between the modern day and the past in fairly short chapters which makes it an ideal read for when time is short or fragmented. It deals with anxiety issues as well as kindness and friendship in a fight against seemingly insurmountable local government and big corporate companies who try and change everyday people's lives for their own gain being insensitive to the local population. It makes a refreshing change to read about an ordinary shy girl who blossoms and has tentatively found love and friendship, and an charming old lady who is still mourning the love of her life but still needs people around.

A feel good book about an eighty plus year old and a twenty plus woman finding friendship and helping each other. The story is about changes in life and how sometimes change can be positive or negative. Often with change it is good to have at least one constant to keep you grounded and in this case it was the community swimming pool. A place people went to reconnect and forgot about everyday problems. The book is about finding love and even in death keeping love alive. It is about a community coming together and supporting each other .Thanks netgalley,

The blending of two lonely souls, one young and the other older, was a delight to read. Kate, a reporter for a local newspaper has an assignment to write about the selling of the Lido, the swimming pool that is about to close and set to become a luxurious high-rise. Rosemary, the 86 year old women has sent a petition around in hopes of saving the pool, the one she has been going to throughout her life. Set in a neighborhood in London, the author writes so vividly you can almost see yourself there. This debut novel was such a perfect read, thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to enjoy this novel in exchange for an honest review.