My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A memoir of a childhood and the sea

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 avery 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.