Shiver : The Lessons of the Lochs - AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR

As featured on Woman's Hour – BBC Radio 4
A Coast Book of the Month

After Brigid Lowe's life is upended, she turns to Scotland's wild waters for refuge and reckoning. Drawn deeper by their bone-cold comfort, she sets herself a challenge: to swim a thousand lochs.

And so her adventures begin: stepping into ice, caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, in lochs held in dripping forests, towering mountains and ancient moorland, alone and with her children in tow.

Immersed in these secret pools, with their vaulting chasms and softer shallows, she tests the line between recklessness and safety, pain and pleasure – and, at last, life and death – discovering new depths of strength, endurance and fluent potential.

Shiver is a love letter to Scotland – its flowers and rocks, myths and legends, highlands and islands – and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.

"A book to bring delight to lovers of water in all its forms and manifestations, to wild swimmers and lovers of wildness, gorgeous landscapes and, above all, of Scotland." Esther Woolfson, author of Corvus

"As clear and magical as the Highland lochs and as filled with colour as the Hebridean seas in which she swims." Annie Worsley, author of Windswept

"Luminous, graceful, and immersive... its greatest gift lingers long after the final page is closed, like a long-forgotten call to return to the watery world of our wild selves." Victoria Bennett, author of The Apothecary by the Sea

Winner of the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction