<p><i>Strands</i> describes a year''s worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid''s purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. <br><br>This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, <i>Strands</i> is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about <i>sea-change</i>.</p>