Eleanor Dooks – who also writes as Eleanor Thom – is based in Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Tin-Kin, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Not The Booker Prize. Eleanor is also a carer and works in community arts, and spent six years as the Communities Writer in Residence for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
A beautiful memoir of a mother and her wheelchair-using, competitive swimmer daughter travelling the North Sea discovering what sea mammals can teach us about care, disability and community
