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The Tidal Year Signed Edition

a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood AS HEARD ON RADIO 4

Freya Bromley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:4th May '23

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**PLEASE NOTE that dedications will be fulfilled when Freya Bromley visits the shop in mid-August. Books will be made available for collection or posted in the days following.**

'Immersive and compelling. I read it in a single day! Everyone should take a plunge into this book.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK

'The Tidal Year is some of the best writing on wild swimming that I have encountered.' MARIANNE LEVY
Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her brother's death left behind. Ready for another distraction, Freya decides to swim every tidal pool in Britain in a year with her friend Miri. The adventure takes them from a pool hidden in the cliffs of fishing-village Polperro to the quarry lagoon of Abereiddi via the Trinkie where locals meet each year to give the pool wall a fresh lick of paint.
As Freya travels further from London, she finds herself closer to memories of her brother. With every swim, and every stranger they meet in the water, the challenge becomes more than just a way to explore the coast, but a journey of self-discovery.The Tidal Year is a true story about the healing power of wild swimming and the space it creates for reflection, rewilding, and hope. An exploration of grief in the modern age, it's also a tale of loss, love, female rage and sisterhood.'Funny, sad and honest, but ultimately also hopeful, The Tidal Year is a wonderful and welcome addition to the growing canon of books exploring the restorative power of wild swimming.' SOPHIE PIERCE

Immersive and compelling. I read it in a single day! Everyone should take a plunge into this book -- Cathy Rentzenbrink
Funny, sad and honest, but ultimately also hopeful, The Tidal Year is a wonderful and welcome addition to the growing canon of books exploring the restorative power of wild swimming -- Sophie Pierce
Reads like a lusciously languid dream sequence... It's not just about how water can redeem us but how words can too. A powerful debut -- Christopher Beanland
Funny and moving, brimming with bracingly refreshing uncertainty and a salty refusal of resolution, it is a book to float away in -- Polly Atkin
A heart-rending depiction of a young woman growing through grief and the healing, restorative power of nature -- Nick Bradley
Bright and tender-hearted... candid and vulnerable -- Jessica J. Lee
A moving and memorable book... Her writing is contained, clear and as powerful as the changing tides she swims in. She is a talent to watch -- Raffaella Barker
Astonishing in its frankness, raw, poignant, bracing, funny; a very human story -- Derek Niemann, Guardian country diarist
The Tidal Year is some of the best writing on wild swimming that I have encountered -- Marianne Levy

ISBN: 9781399709675-S

Dimensions: 220mm x 144mm x 48mm

Weight: 560g

448 pages