Deep Water

378 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Tim Jeal (born 1945) is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. His publications include biographies of Baden-Powell, Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley (2007). In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. Jeal was formally educated in London and Oxford, and lives in North London. He has a wife, and three adult daughters."