A Year in Water

Swimming, Writing, Living

Beth McDonough author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:NORTH HOUSE PRESS

Published:3rd Sep '26

Should be back in stock very soon

A Year in Water cover

Organised around the calendar year, this is a beautiful and inspirational companion. Through poetry, handy recipes, tips and richly informative, and often funny prose, A Year in Water celebrates the challenges and joys of outdoor swimming.

Stunningly illustrated throughout, A Year in Water combines quietly humorous and observant prose, inspirational advice, lucid poetry, and waterside recipes.

Beth McDonough takes the reader through all the seasons of the year, and into the UK’s wild, and more tamed, waters, inspiring the reader with practical hints, tips, and advice along the way. With evocative and visceral poems, the reader is placed knee-deep in rivers, lochs and seas – without having to get their feet wet!

“There are many things to admire about A Year in Water…[it] feels a lot like sneaking a peek at somebody’s private scrapbook: a pleasingly chaotic jumble of the practical, the whimsical, the meaningful and the throwaway…Another big plus point is that even though McDonough is evidently an experienced swimmer…. she wears her experience lightly”

-- Roger Cox, The Scot

ISBN: 9781918204087

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

192 pages