Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018.
This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss.
It is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.
- ISBN10 178497837X
- ISBN13 9781784978372
- Publish Date 20 April 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Head of Zeus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English