{"product_id":"salt-on-your-tongue-women-and-the-sea-charlotte-runcie","title":"Salt On Your Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSalt On Your Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's an ode to our oceans - to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, \u003cem\u003eSalt On Your Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Runcie is the \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e's radio columnist and arts writer. For several years she lived and worked in Edinburgh, where she ran a folk-music choir, and she now lives in the Scottish Borders. She has a secret past as a poet, having been a Foyle Young Poet of the Year with a pamphlet published by tall-lighthouse. \u003cem\u003eSalt On Your Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSalt On Your Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This motherhood memoir-cum-nature journal about the connection between women and the sea is bracing and poetic . . . Throughout, her prose is defined by cool confidence and unshowy clarity, allowing its more poetic observations, of which there are plenty, to glimmer like glass pebbles . . . Just like her favourite kind of blustery beach, it's strewn with pocketable treasures'\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Women and water are the subjects of Charlotte Runcie's seductive history . . . Intoxicating . . . Runcie is a fine guiding star: wise, curious, sensitive to language and landscape . . . At its best her writing hauntingly captures the whispered wave and wash of the sea'\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore . . . A wide, eclectic cast of characters wash in and out on the tide of her poetic prose'\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A seductive, estuarine merging of personal memoir and scholarly reportage . . . Runcie has a beachcomber's mind and a poet's turn of phrase'\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A very beautiful book about myth and motherhood \\u2013 a memoir that intertwines effortlessly and poetically with tales of the sea. \u003cem\u003eSalt On Your Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e has a rare magic to it'\u003cbr\u003e- Sophie Mackintosh, Booker-longlisted author of \u003cem\u003eThe Water Cure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Runcie has combined an exploration of Scotland's seascape with the story of her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter . . . Breathless, intimate . . . Very much in the vein of bestsellers \u003cem\u003eThe Outrun\u003c\/em\u003e by Amy Liptrot and \u003cem\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Macdonald'\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cem\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 2020","offer_id":58957515358582,"sku":"9781786891211","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/2287\/2891\/files\/9781786891211-Salt_On_Your_Tongue-1-CWNB.jpg?v=1791683325","url":"https:\/\/sailorshop.co.uk\/products\/salt-on-your-tongue-women-and-the-sea-charlotte-runcie","provider":"SailorShop.co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}