The Place Of Tides By James Rebanks

One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks (author of The Shepherd's Life) met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She 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. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.