Slack-Tide

Elanor Dymott

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'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.

'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'By midsummer the thing between us was finished, and it was as if a storm had torn the roof from over me.'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?