Victoria Whitworth: Swimming with Seals [2021] paperback ZFCRI extremism rose once more and

extremism rose once more and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too

she stumbles on a secret that could destroy her family

Talmadge must fight to save the lives of those he has learned to love while confronting the ghosts of his own troubled past

pure and rich in dreams and imagination - untainted by the demands of reality

their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold

Victoria Whitworth: Swimming with Seals [2021] paperback ZFCRI extremism rose once more andShortlisted 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