Slack-Tide

A brilliant depiction of both romantic rapture and heartfelt delusion (Daily Telegraph), Slack-Tide is the new sucker punch of a novel from Elanor Dymott, author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She meets Robert exuberant, generous, apparently care-free and they fall in love with breath-taking speed. Slack-Tide tracks the ebbs and flows of the affair: passionate, coercive, intensely sexual. When youve known lasting love and lost it, what price will you pay to find it again? When two people meet is it need, fantasy or love? Slack-Tide takes us on an urgent journey and kept me reading late into the night Esther Freud