{"product_id":"9780008797416","title":"Brave and Bold: 100 Years of the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath (in all weathers)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eI have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they also give us an insight into a hundred years of women’s lives.\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eFrom code breakers to cake bakers, I have learned that there is no such thing as a ‘normal woman’; and over the last hundred years the Pond has played host to thousands of remarkable people.\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a century, the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain’s most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave and Bold\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is far more than the story of one pond. It’s a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave and Bold \u003c\/em\u003eis both a love letter to Hampstead Heath and to every woman who has ever felt most at home bobbing about in open water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Dolly Alderton (Everything I Know About Love), and Daisy Buchanan (How to Be a Grown-Up).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nell Frizzell, With The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association, Foreword by Esther Freud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889465643157,"sku":"9780008797416","price":41.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008797416_d6d6df10-7e97-4e70-b2da-e7782690cca8.jpg?v=1776888225","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008797416","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}