This is a moir 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.brbrIt 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.p
Swimming with Seals
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.pRights Sold
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Imprint: Apollo l Publiction Date: May 2021 l Word Count: 305pAbout the Author
Victoria Whitworth is a novelist and acadic who explores the culture and society of Britain in the Early Middle Ages, focusing on death, burial and mory. She is the author ofDying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England(as Victoria Thompson);The Bone ThiefandThe Traitors' Pit(as V.M. Whitworth); andDaughter of the Wolf.p
