The Ripple Effect, Anna Deacon & Vicky Allan

The Ripple Effect, Anna Deacon & Vicky AllanNew Hardback Each of us is just a drop. But together we create ripples. Wild swimming isn't just an activity. It has been a movement, a wave that has surged in popularity across Britain, rippling out and spreading joy. And at the centre of it all are the groups and communities that gather at the water's edge to dip together, scream together, laugh together, and share stories and support. From menopausal mermaids to student dippers, male mental health

winding 240 miles between the chalk hills and shifting seascapes of the south coast

comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry

the lung-freezing ferocity of the South Pole

they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path

that celebrated nature and observed the small steady shifts in the seasons

With previously unseen material and through extensive interviews with family

weaponry and strategic choke points

in its own eccentric way

boat trips and weekends

wanderlust

Yet only a few weeks before the end of the war Plettenberg is finally denounced and arrested

When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her