The Tidal Year
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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.
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Freya had her tidal year - a year, following her brother's death, during which she compromised to swimming in every tidal pool in England, along with her friend Miri. I know that we always find a bit of ourselves in everything we read; that the things others feel are always mirrors of what we, too, had felt at some point. So, I was aware, naturally, that while I hadn't, thank god, lost someone as intrinsically close as a brother, and had never swam in a tidal pool, the book was going to resonate with me. I just didn't know to which extent. Sure everyone has a tidal year – one of those when we feel like drowning and suffocating at the same time, when we are overcome by grief and sadness for whatever we've lost, and days last forever, grim and thick. I saw my 2024, somehow, in Freya's year, and, with that, I felt we also left the water together at the end.