The Swing

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A poetic book about the passage of time.The Swing is a book about time, change, new beginnings, endings … a book about life. 
 
Every page shows readers the same view of a swing and sets the stage for different stories which happen over days, months, years and decades – over a whole generation.
 
A book where countless stories of the people who visit the swing are told. It’s a book about beginnings and endings, youth and old age, community and loneliness. Set against the passage of time and the changing seasons. 
 
  Born in Hamburg, Britta Teckentrup studied art and illustration at the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. She is author and illustrator of numerous books and has received many awards. She lives with her Scottish husband and her son Vincent in Berlin SK

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