The Place of Tides
by James Rebanks
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Pub Date 17 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2025
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Description
‘Enchanting’ Telegraph
‘Miraculous’ Isabella Tree
‘Exquisite’ FT
From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, an unforgettable story of friendship, redemption and a life-changing voyage of discovery on a remote Norwegian island
How far do you have to go to find yourself?
One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on.
Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly – and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island.
This is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter, to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for gathering, like feathered gold.
Slowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not what he had previously thought. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.
*Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award*
Advance Praise
‘I was mesmerised by The Place of Tides. A captivating portrait of a younger man learning from an older woman, of the great buzzing jungle of the modern world versus the silent wisdom of old ways, of paying attention to your heart instead of the internet, of finding out how to go your own way’
Laura Cumming
'An extraordinary story, gently told. This was just the book I needed'
Nigel Slater
'Deceptively simple, emotionally surprising, beautiful, and true'
Melissa Harrison
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780241426937 |
PRICE | £22.00 (GBP) |
PAGES | 304 |
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