Learning To Swim — Clare Chambers

In this witty look at the pretensions of suburbia, Abigail's safe, middle-class home life, is thrown into dramatic relief as her friendship with Frances's family gives her a new outlook - where her family is polite and ordinary, the Radleys are colourful and captivating. But through them she discovers that all is not what it seems in her own conventional family.

Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1999) by the Romantic Novelists' Association.