On May 18th, Waterspirit hosts its 2nd book club of 2026: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks (2025). One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild ducks and gathering their down. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge, forgiveness and how to make lasting change.

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“Deceptively simple, emotionally surprising, beautiful, and true.” - Melissa Harrison
“A love letter to the quiet and complex majesty of a little-known landscape and the women that tirelessly tend to it. It moved, humbled and educated me and made a place I have never set my eyes on suddenly vivid and close.”  - Vanessa Kisuule
“The Place of Tides is terrific – so honest and strange. It’s somehow about eider ducks, middle age, one woman’s breathtaking skill and determination, the collapse of the natural order and everything in between. I think it’s Rebanks’s best book yet.”  - Sam Knight
"The Place of Tides reminds readers that small acts of care for our environment can result in great things when done over time. Quietly enchanting, this book offers readers an oasis of calm in our turbulent world.”