Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

Following grey whale mothers and their calves across Mexico, the Arctic, and Alaska, Doreen and Max pursue a wild hope in this captivating memoir. It explores resilience, loss, bravery, power, and the consequences of abuse, making it a powerful and emotional journey.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as
H is for Hawk
NEW STATESMAN
Wonderful ... both frank and fearless
TELEGRAPH
BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Fascinating
GUARDIAN
TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRS
From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves.
Following them, by bus, train and ferry, are Doreen and her toddler Max, in pursuit of a wild hope.

Doreen first visited Alaska as a young BBC journalist reporting on climate change among indigenous whaling communities.
There, drawn deeply into an Iñupiaq family and an ill-fated love affair, she joined the bowhead whale hunt out on the sea ice.

Years later, now a single mother living in a hostel, Doreen embarks on this extraordinary journey:
Following the grey whale migration back to the Arctic, where greys and bowheads meet at the melting apex of our planet.

As compelling as any novel... A human story of resilience, loss and immense bravery.
It becomes not just a book about mother and son, whales, the climate, but a book about power and what happens when power is abused.
It is a rallying call for love
Alice Kinsella,
IRISH TIMES
In this melodic memoir, the climate researcher turned journalist parallels the whales journey with her own through parenthood
Shreya Chattopadhyay,
NEW YORK TIMES
Soundings got under my skin. I finished it in tears
Amy Liprot
What a voice!
What a book!
CHARLES FOSTER
Soulful, honest, insightful, humane and propulsive
JINI REDDY
Thrilling, passionate and tender-hearted
HELEN JUKES
WINNER OF THE RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE SNHN NATURAL HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
ONE OF
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
S TEN BEST BOOKS ABOUT TRAVEL OF 2022

Weight: 248g
Dimension: 126 x 197 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349014937