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Between The Tides

Between the Tides opens with two people, stranded by an incoming tide on a small island, with nothing to do but talk. What emerges from this premise are two characters: Philip Sampson and Adrienne Divine – damaged, intellectually serious, and entirely unwilling to be comfortable with one another in the ways that fiction usually allows. There is also a supporting cast of other characters, possibly dream-like – possibly not. After all, isolation can play strange tricks with the imagination. It can be frightening. It can also be something else entirely. The novel is set over a single extended stay on Leven Isle, a tidal island off the coast of Lancashire, accessible only by a crumbling wartime causeway. Always in sight of land, yet suddenly isolated from their ordinary lives, their stranding forces them to explore the nature of obscurity, solitude, and the fear of passing their lives entirely unnoticed – of never being truly seen for who they believe themselves to be. But it is also, at its heart, a love story – just not a simple one, and not a comfortable one either. Is there such a thing as a small life? The novel makes the case that it all depends on how we look at it, and on what

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