How I Learned to Swim

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024</b> <p/><i>Grieving is weird and expensive.</i> <p/>Jamie can't swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family at 30 years old she's taking on her biggest fear - the ocean. <p/>With the help of a chipper swim instructor a shady spiritual guide and one cathartic crab sandwich she questions 'How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?' <p/>Brilliantly witty deeply heartfelt this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones's searing debut <i>How I Learned to Swim</i> is 'funny with fear liberating with grief' (<i>Fringe Review</i>) and impossible to walk away from unchanged. <p/>This edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhall's Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.</p>