Eleanor Thom & Oona Dooks

Eleanor Thom and her 11-year-old daughter, Oona Dooks are a team, but one of them fell in love with water while the other was afraid of it. Oona is a wheelchair user and competitive swimmer with a talent for turning strangers into friends. Eleanor has written two novels, The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), which won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, and Connective Tissue (Taproot Press, 2023). From their home in Edinburgh, and through journeys along the coast, they are working on Sea Legs, a co-written memoir exploring interdependence, disabled whales, and our relationship with the marine environment. It will be published by Fig Tree in Spring 2027.