[6] Lloyd is a regular speaker at book festivals and on environment panels, and is currently Writer in Residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre.
[7] Her first book, The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay (Saraband, 2016), is a memoir of a year spent walking the coast of this major tidal estuary, including social history, archaeology, wildlife and is also a pilgrimage through her past and present.
[4][8] Author and naturalist Mark Cocker called it "a hugely impressive debut"; while Miriam Darlington for BBC Wildlife wrote "Entrancing...sparkles with lyrical imagery-".
She also records her responses to the light of the Hebridean midsummer on the isle of Mull, a nighttime trip to the island of Staffa, and her encounters with sea eagles and otters.
Lloyd also revisits her home territory in a discussion of climate change and land regeneration in the Lake District, where the restoration of soils slows rainfall and is driving the return of pollinators.