Bastien Vivès’s tender love story takes place almost entirely in the water, an enormous municipal swimming pool evoked in an aquamarine-soaked palette reminiscent of Hockney’s swimming pool series. ‘Every once in a while,’ wrote Peter Wild in the Independent on Sunday, ‘a graphic novel comes along that warrants the kind of attention more typically bestowed upon the likes of the Booker shortlist. Bastien Vivès's A Taste of Chlorine is one such book.’

Jonathan Cape Ltd | Hardback 144 pp. |ISBN: 9780224090964