Swim Until You Can't See Land - Catriona Child

Everyone should know her story and what she endured, what she sacrificed.
 
Mariele survived torture, including the brutal removal of her fingernails, and earned her medals by risking her life for her beliefs and for the sake of others. She fought for a future she would never see, for people she would never meet and even for someone like me. So that I could grow up safe. So that I could swim.
And yet her medals are hidden away, not proudly displayed.
If I had been in her place… would I have had the strength to survive?
 
Catriona Child, once a competitive swimmer herself, and sister to Eilidh Child, Commonwealth Games silver medallist, understands the soaring triumphs and crushing disappointments of elite sport.

In Swim Until You Can’t See Land, 20-year-old Hannah is forced to abandon her professional swimming career. Drifting without purpose, she crosses paths with Mariele and is shaken by the extraordinary bravery of a woman who once served as a secret agent in Nazi-occupied France.