The House of Tides
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A sweeping and resonant novel about a British family's long-held secrets, for anyone who loved the drama of Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers or the lush settings of Kate Morton's novels.
The Tides are a family with many secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day a decade ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forward with their lives.
There is Dora, the family's youngest daughter, who lives in a ramshackle London warehouse with her artist boyfriend. She is doing a good job of skating across the surface of her life, but when she discovers she is pregnant, she finds herself staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt. Dora's mother, Helen, is a complicated woman whose relationship with her family has always been turbulent, while her father Richard has cobbled together a life that bears little resemblance to his boyhood dreams. And Cassie, Dora's long-estranged sister, has cut off her family entirely, it seems.
When Dora arrives at Clifftops, her family's rambling home on the Dorset coast, it seems that Helen might finally be ready to make amends for her own part in the tragedy. But what Dora soon discovers is that the path to redemption does not rest solely with her mother. Can family crimes this damaging ever really be forgiven?
Customer Reviews
Beautifully Tragic & Healing
This book is about a family with many dark secrets and tragic loss and how the each family member copes with the role they played in the tragedy. There is more than enough blame and guilt to go around. But with all of this there is hope and a chance for healing and I really enjoyed how the author told the story from the different perspectives of each character. But you can't move on until you face your demons, hit rock bottom to where there is nowhere left but to move up and on. There are some interesting twists and turns to this story that I'll remember for a very long time.
Heart wrenching/heart warming
This is such a full book. Full of anger, full of regret, full of loss, and, ultimately, full of hope.
Well written and wonderful to read - there were times I had to put it down because things got so bleak for the Tides - more bleak than any family had a right to.
It's so sad to me when people marry for the wrong reasons, but when a marriage does work, kudos to the happy couple!
Fabulous
A great plot.This book will make you get your priorities in order, and be thankful for them.