Captivating sand
by Lisa Woollett, published by Zart Books (in association with the Eden Project) From www.lisawoollett.com £14.99
The tide has turned and is on its way in. The children run on ahead of me in their pants, down the beach and out across wet sand to distant surf. The sea is turquoise inshore and deep blue to the horizon; in the shallows, with the cross-shore breeze, the Atlantic waves collapse into foaming white water.
Although the children are way out now they are barely waist-deep, and as each wave crumbles around them they jump and are swallowed, disappearing briefly before
