The Tidal Year
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 Trinkie Wick 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.
(P) 2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Freya Bromley lost her younger brother to cancer when he was 19. A few years later, adrift and uncertain of everything, swimming is the only place she feels truly alive in her body and connected to herself. The ostensible challenge she and her closest friend undertake is to swim in every tidal pool in Britain—those spaces which safely contain the wild sea—but her true mission is for herself, to reclaim the young woman unmoored by tragedy at just the moment she should have been establishing her own life. Bromley’s writing is tender, thoughtful and compassionate at times; frank, funny and angry at others. As she grapples with her loss, some of her observations are so acute and so unvarnished they will make you ache for her, and you can feel her commitment to sharing all of her story, to exposing all of her grief even in its rawness and rage.
