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The Tidal Year

By: Freya Bromley
Narrated by: Freya Bromley
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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.

©2023 Freya Bromley (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Ecosystems & Habitats Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Water Sports Sports Heartfelt Swimming
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Really really enjoyed this - audio was so good and the story was emotional and heart wrenching. Compassionate and wonderful - thank you ❤️

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A beautiful and brutally honest account of a family’s loss as told by Freya. Freya, is quite clearly an emerging talent in the literary world and whilst this must have been so incredibly hard for her to write - she has captured this, her own story, with such an open vulnerability and without pretence. I am in utter awe.
With a voice made for radio, hearing Freya read this gave even further resonance to an already frank and open memoir - just beautiful.

Five Stars

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A saw that someone in my family was reading this book and she was loving it. I guessed that if she was enjoying it, I ought to read it too. I wasn’t disappointed. Beautifully narrated, fascinating, moving and informative. Clearly written from the heart. Bravo Freya.

I highly recommend Freya’s book.

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A beautiful book that kept me company. Freya writes about her experience of grief so eloquently and honestly, it’s also funny, playful, hopeful and so much more.
There are lines from this that had me in tears and will stay with me for a long time.
Also beautifully read by the author herself.

Incredible, honest, dreamy, resonant

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I loved reading this book, and hearing Freya read it bought it to life even more. Would highly recommend.

A stunning read (listen)

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