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Swimming with Seals

By: Victoria Whitworth
Narrated by: Victoria Whitworth
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Bloomsbury presents Swimming with Seals written and read by Victoria Whitworth.

A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage.

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.

©2024 Victoria Whitworth (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Europe Women

Critic Reviews

Attentive, astute and beautiful... I adored it' (Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun)

'Absorbing and thrilling' (Ella Foote, Outdoor Swimming)
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The descriptions of Orkney landscape and people and the authors pocket of life there was gentle and beautiful.

Beautiful and thoughtfully read by the author.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.