Lost to the Sea

Absorbing and highly enjoyable … Woollett has an excellent sense of the strange, the inexplicable, the funny and the unforgettable * Caught by the River *Filled with incident, insight and human curiosity … In elegant, haunting, always lively prose, Lost to the Sea proposes a vision of the great power of the elemental sea: the mysteries it has concealed, revealed, and will eventually take back to itself … a fascinating alternative history of the fractured, flooded and eroded edges of Britain and Ireland. – PHILIP HOAREA haunting evocation of vanishing places. Meticulously researched, Lost to the Sea delivers scene after scene of watery destruction at a host of crumbling, mythical or sunken sites - and a timely reminder of the transience of our coasts – PHILIP MARSDENA beautiful foray into the lost boundaries of Britain and Ireland – LARA MAIKLEM, author of Mudlarking

Lisa Woollett grew up on eroding cliffs on the Isle of Sheppey, with stories of local pubs and churches that had been lost to the sea. A photographer and beachcomber, she is the author of several award-winning books, most recently Rag and Bone which won the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction. Since 2004 she has lived with her family on the south coast of Cornwall, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of beach finds.

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