The Women's Pool

The tide is going out but a rogue wave crashes over the pool wall and over me, and I gasp as the colder water foams like seltzer on my skin. The history of McIver's Ladies Baths in Coogee; affectionately know as the Women's Pool; is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there.Humorous tales of encounters at the pool sit alongside stories of sorrow and regret. There are recollections of the famed ‘Thursday Married Ladies Club' and accounts of delight at the natural beauty, safety and freedom that Australia's only ocean pool reserved for women offers. In this anthology, writers from diverse cultures reveal the role that the Women's Pool has played in their lives.