There's no shortage of books about wild swimming... Perhaps the most intriguing of the lot is Swimming with Seals'

Scotland on Sunday

onderfully evocative... Fascinating... The writing is consistently alert and engaging'

Scotsman

Attentive, astute and beautiful... I adored it'

Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

I finished this book wanting to find a cold lido, or jump into a lake, or walk into the cold sea and stay there for as long as I could stand it, and then do it again

Guardian

Each little "dreamlike postcard" in this captivating book takes you deeper into the world novelist Victoria Whitworth experienced as a sea-swimmer in the wild waters of Orkney'

Sainsbury's Magazine

The author's descriptions of the coastline in Orkney and the savannah in Kenya, where she spent some of her childhood, are sharp and original... enjoy wallowing in the richness of her theological, philosophical and literary knowledge'

The National