Place of Tides (PB) By James Rebanks

From the author of The Shepherd's Life, this is a spellbinding account of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island. Many years ago he met an old woman who lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. 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. He traveled back to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island and this is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life, as well as an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.