Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.
This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Published: 31/05/2012
ISBN: 9781409028123
Length: 256 Pages
RRP: £10.99
A fine book… Transparent, undeceived prose
Compelling … well-contextualised, sharply-observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched
With clarity and candour, in the natural voice of a modern storyteller, she tells what she sees at the intersection of herself and whatever is delivered to her by the tide
Sprackland has a wonderfully curious eye
Simply gorgeous ... One of the finest piece of writing, nature or otherwise, to emerge this year