I liked the premise of this book and wanted to read it after reading and enjoying the In The Garden one previously. I enjoyed the first few essays, set in the winter. They have really set the tone for what the Pond itself and the nature around it felt like to the swimmers. I also really enjoyed the essay called The Lifeguard’s Perspective, it was super interesting to read. Sadly, towards the end of the book, I found myself getting a bit bored. It felt like a lot of the latter essays focused less on the Pond and more on the authors’ “disjointed” lives and I was left thinking what’s the point of including these in here? I was going to read some of the other books from this series by Daunt but now I’m not so sure.