In one of her most accomplished works to date, Tina Howe has created a remarkable heroine for the nineties: Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel. We meet her at age 90, as she looks back on a life that spans the twentieth century. Structured like memory, the play’s scenes criss-cross through time, from her youth through the events which shaped her life.