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The Tidal Year
- Author
- Freya Bromley
- Narrator
- Freya Bromley
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 4 May 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
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
Critics Review
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Immersive and compelling. I read it in a single day! Everyone should take a plunge into this book
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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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
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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
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Funny and moving, brimming with bracingly refreshing uncertainty and a salty refusal of resolution, it is a book to float away in
Polly Atkin
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A heart-rending depiction of a young woman growing through grief and the healing, restorative power of nature
Nick Bradley
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Bright and tender-hearted... candid and vulnerable
Jessica J. Lee
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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
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Astonishing in its frankness, raw, poignant, bracing, funny; a very human story
Derek Niemann, Guardian country diarist
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The Tidal Year is some of the best writing on wild swimming that I have encountered
Marianne Levy
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A beautiful, brilliantly written book on grief, self-discovery and swimming. I loved following along on the tidal pool adventure and thought all the observations, of people and places, were so vividly captured. It's not every day you gobble up a 400+ page memoir in a matter of days
Emma Gannon
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Beautifully written
Jersey Evening Post
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A poignant, funny tribute to the complex, tidal nature of grief. The Tidal Year delivers inspirational waves of hope and renewal to its readers, demonstrating the restorative power of immersion in the natural world
Jade Angeles Fitton, author of HERMIT
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Freya Bromley's powerful memoir The Tidal Year is all about her love for wild swimming, and how she's used it to process her grief... I found myself blinking back tears
Harper's Bazaar
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Details
- Author
- Freya Bromley
- Narrator
- Freya Bromley
- Duration
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 May 2023
- ISBN
- 9781399709682
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Memoirs, Swimming, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Synopsis
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
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