These Heavy Black Bones

These Heavy Black Bones

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Ajulu-Bushell, Rebecca Achieng
Canongate Books
EAN: 9781805300441
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

'Poetic, candid and utterly compelling' - FREYA BROMLEY
'Absolutely remarkable' - LYNN BARBER
'Reads with the tension of a thriller, illuminating the world of elite sport' - CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'An embodied water odyssey' - LIDIA YUKNAVITCH

This is not a story about making history.

Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was once a double British Champion and the first Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. As her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press scrutiny and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca charts her career's ascent and her singular love of the water, before explaining why she walked away from it all.

A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones meditates on Blackness, identity and the ecstasy of peak physical performance, and lays bare the pressures within the swimming world.

EAN 9781805300441
ISBN 180530044X
Binding Hardback
Publisher Canongate Books
Publication date June 6, 2024
Pages 256
Language English
Dimensions 220 x 145 x 25
Country United Kingdom
Authors Ajulu-Bushell, Rebecca Achieng
Edition Main