Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

The scene: a silver-lilac dawn over the Indian Ocean. Everything exquisite, before an innocent (and privileged) “swim with wild dolphins” experience. Only it’s not just your hotel boat, because all the captains have radioed each other and about 40 boats are converging on a homecoming pod of dolphins. See their great silver backs sewing through the shimmering colours, so many of them! All the tourists are shouting in excitement as the boats surround the pod, and then massive splashing as we jump in.

The pod of bottlenose dolphins comes…