Swimming with Seals

by Victoria Whitworth (Author), Victoria Whitworth (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2021

  $10.19

  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.