# Holding Her Breath

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- Book: [Holding Her Breath](https://www.bookquiver.com/eimear-ryan/holding-her-breath) ([Holding Her Breath.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eimear-ryan/holding-her-breath.md))
- Authors: [Eimear Ryan](https://www.bookquiver.com/eimear-ryan)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 18 min
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-374-3
- Published: 2021-06-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 18 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past When Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the ghost of her potential as a competitive swimmer. Free to create a fresh identity for herself, she finds herself among people who adore the poetry of her grandfather, Benjamin Crowe, who died tragically before she was born. She embarks on a secret relationship - and on a quest to discover the truth about Benjamin and his widow, her beloved grandmother Lydia. The quest brings her into an archive that no scholar has ever seen, and to a person who knows things about her family that nobody else knows. Holding Her Breath is a razor-sharp, moving and seriously entertaining novel about complicated love stories, ambition and grief - and a young woman coming fully into her powers. ' A beautiful coming-of-age story told with impressive skill and lightness of touch . . . I absolutely loved it' LOUISE O'NEILL ' Precise, sure, engaging, and a joy to read' RODDY DOYLE 'A nimble account of student life with a darkly enjoyable undercurrent of secrecy and emotional turmoil' SARA BAUME 'Through the dark sky of our times, Eimear Ryan arrives like a comet, a bright talent scorching through every page' DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA , author of A Ghost in the Throat ' Brilliantly realised, gripping, and moving . . . This is absolutely the real thing' KEVIN POWER © Eimear Ryan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021