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 TraceIt 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 you ve 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