Grey Skies, Green Waves : A Surfer's Journey Around the UK and Ireland

Tom Anderson has always loved surfing – anywhere except the UK. But a chance encounter leads him to a series of adventures on home surf, discovering that Britain's cold waters have more to offer than he ever imagined.

"So this is surfing in Britain," he tells himself, grumpily walking up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain and wind both try their utmost to send him skidding back down to the freezing beach below. Yet as he visits the popular haunts and secret gems of British surfing, something unexpected happens.

Along the way, he meets the Christians who pray for waves (and get them), loses a competition to a non-existent surfer, is nearly drowned in the River Severn and has a watery encounter with a pedigree sheep. All this rekindles his love affair with the freezing fun that is surfing the North Atlantic.