My Sand Life, My Pebble Life is a new book focusing on one of poet Ian McMillan's great loves — the sea — and the places and memories that have shaped who he is today.
Comprised of a series of perfectly crafted, evocative, funny and nostalgic essays, Ian revisits the coastal places that stamped themselves on his childhood: Cleethorpes, where a bird once landed on the seat next to him as the miniature railway chugged along, California in Suffolk where his Auntie accidentally put her hand through the window of a caravan and bled spectacularly, Minehead in Somerset where his dad kept stalling the car and the family limped across the map and took all day to get a very short distance, Broadford on the Isle of Skye where midges descended on Ian like an apocalyptic umbrella.
This book will transport you from your everyday life to a coast rich in memories of childhood and times spent by the sea.
