Author Talk with Brigid Lowe, Shiver, Thursday 29th October, 7.00pm

IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIGID LOWE, SHIVER: THE LESSONS OF THE LOCHS THURSDAY 29TH OCTOBER, 7.00PM ST PETER'S CHURCH, LINLITHGOW *If you purchase your ticket online, you will not be allocated a physical ticket. Instead, your name will be added to a list, which we will have with us at the venue - all you have to do is provide your name at the door! After Brigid Lowe’s world is upended, Scotland becomes her home. Its icy, wild waters a place of visceral relief. Baptising herself into this new life, Brigid sets herself a challenge: to swim in 1,000 of these spectacular lochs. And so Brigid’s adventures begin: stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, across forest and mountain and moor, alone and with her children in tow. And as she comes to know these secret pools, with their vaulting depths and softer shallows, she walks the line between recklessness and safety, discovering new depths of pain and pleasure, of strength and endurance. Shiver is a love-letter to Caledonia – its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills – and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again. TICKETS £8