| Author: | Victoria Whitworth | ISBN: | 9781784978365 |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus | Publication: | April 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus | Language: | English |
| Author: | Victoria Whitworth |
| ISBN: | 9781784978365 |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus |
| Publication: | April 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
