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Title: |
Tide Road |
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| By (author): |
Valerie Compton |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864926359 : 9780864926357 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Weight: |
.307 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - March 2011 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
No Sales Rights
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| Memory changes, as the events of history never do. On a strangely warm day in January, Stella vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a young daughter and a husband bewildered by her sudden absence. The police officially label her disappearance an accident, a drowning, Stella somehow slipping beneath the thin ice of a nearby river. As her mother Sonia clings to the remnants of her family, she begins to harbour a deepening suspicion that Stella's departure was no accident. With the deceptive drag of an undertow, the chaotic flotsam of misplaced dreams, bruised hopes and buried loves of Sonia's past well up to overwhelm her. Confronted with her own history of ill-considered choices and failures, Sonia is compelled to revise her preconceptions of her daughter's life and dramatically alter the way she lives her own. A subltle draughtsman of character, Compton's powers of description, timing and revelation coalesce into a splendidly delicate account of one woman's present shaped by the unanticipated legacies of her past. |
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