Why is cold-water swimming so addictive? How can we all experience the benefits?

This slice-of-life memoir focuses on the courage Debi found to swim in the sea all year round, and how that changed her. In Becoming a Mermaid Sister, she takes the reader on a voyage through the difficulties she faced in the chaos of a pandemic, her watery transformation, meeting up with a 'shimmer' of Mermaid Sisters and the gratefulness she found for the natural world she lives in.

There is much to discover in this book. Although Debi doesn’t consider herself a true cold-water swimmer (only 10 degrees C so far and counting), she furnishes the reader with local knowledge about when and where to swim on Cape Town’s beaches. This collection is homegrown but relevant enough to be universally enjoyed.