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Girl Who Stopped Swimming is an audio book written and read by Joshilyn Jackson.

Laurel Gray Hawthorne hasn't seen a ghost in the thirteen years she and her husband have lived in the beautiful gated neighborhood of Victorianna.

Keeping her head down, she's managed to make a good life for her beloved daughter and husband while working on her nationally acclaimed art quilts.

But in the dog days of a Florida August, she wakes to find a dead girl standing by her bed. It's the ghost of her daughter's best friend, Molly, who leads the way to her own small body, floating lifelessly in the Hawthornes' backyard pool.

Now, with police on her lawn and neighbors peeking over the fence, Laurel's carefully constructed existence cracks, and her past seeps through.

Laurel and her sister, Thalia, grew up in what appears to be a typical blue-collar home, but the Grays have long been hiding a very literal skeleton in their closet.

While Laurel built her pretty, pleasing life in the suburbs, Thalia became an actress with a capital A, about as unconventional as they come. She's the walking definition of mess, and no longer fits in Laurel's tidy world. Yet Molly can't rest until someone learns her secrets, and she has opened a door to the past that Laurel can't close alone.

She turns to her wild and estranged sister, though asking for Thalia's help is like jumping into a hot frying pan protected only by a thin layer of Crisco.

Together they set out on a life-altering journey that will reveal their family's buried history, the true state of Laurel's perfect marriage, and what really happened to the girl who stopped swimming.

Read the reviews of Joshilyn Jackson's book....

BOOK REVIEW: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson - To get to the bottom of everything - and particularly to stop Shelby becoming a suspect - Laurel needs her sister, Thalia, but she and Thalia are no longer speaking. Neither approves of the other's lifestyle and any attempts at finding ...

Sunday Book Review: the girl who stopped swimming - Her third novel, the girl who stopped swimming, did not disappoint. From the first chapter I was in love with Laurel, a woman who is greeted by the ghost of a neighborhood girl who has just drowned in the swimming pool in Laurel's yard. ...

Review: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - The ghost of a young girl shows up in Laurel’s bedroom in the middle of the night. When she follows it to the window she sees the body of her 13-year old daughter’s best friend, Molly floating face down in her swimming pool. ...