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 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 'When two people meet is it need, fantasy or love? Slack-Tide'By midsummer the thing between us was finished, and it was as if a storm had torn the roof from over me.'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? 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.