The Road to Cleethorpes Pier: A ‘beautiful, thoughtful’ memoir with poetry

I never missed my childhood home / until the tide stopped rolling in and / ochre sand no longer crunched between my toes …

A little girl grows up to the sounds of the seaside in bustling Cleethorpes. There are family outings through the Lincolnshire Wolds in a tiny Austin 7, and ferry rides across the Humber. Family runs like a comforting thread throughout this ‘little gem of a book’, and lifelong friendships are forged in unexpected places … A gentle and heartfelt memoir about the timeless call of the sea