Praise for The Gathering Tide

‘Evocative, muscular… an artist’s eye for colour and a dynamic way with verbs provide energy. Though bright and sensitive there is also an no-nonsense earthy quality to the writing –pleasingly Cumbrian!’ Kathleen Jamie

‘This poetic book is a map, a layered account of Morecambe Bay, its birds, rivers, names, bones, weathers, ghosts, tides and lives, its dangerous beauty, its tragedies. Karen Lloyd keeps company with the living and the dead, neolithic burials, the grave of a black slave boy, the Chinese cockle-pickers lost to the rising tide in 2004. In mapping a place and sharing its beauty with her reader, she arrives at her own sense of belonging.’ Gillian Clarke, poet

‘A vivid book with a landscape at its heart, redolent with the tang of original imagery. The hallmarks of good nature writing are in place – a seeing eye, that willingness to watch alone that deepens the bond between nature and writer, and the capacity for celebrating what Hazlitt called “the involuntary impression of things upon the mind…”’ Jim Crumley, nature writer

‘Slides effortlessly from the environment to history, to stories of other people, to personal anecdote… [It] succeeds magnificently.’ Robin Lloyd-Jones, author of The Sunlit Summit