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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 17/01/2019
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ISBN: 9781787331129
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 23mm x 144mm
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Weight: 331g
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RRP: £12.99
'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?
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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 17/01/2019
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ISBN: 9781787331129
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 23mm x 144mm
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Weight: 331g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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"Often, the best books work on you subcutaneously, by accretion, not letting you know precisely what they’re about until days or even weeks after you’ve finished them... Vivid and memorable… Slack-Tide is a fierce and often very funny send-up of a generation of men who think they can have their cake and eat it."
Alex Preston, Observer
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"Slack-Tide, Elanor Dymott's captivating third novel, is sharp in many ways… [it’s] so convincingly – and, at times, so disastrously – funny… But what makes Slack-Tide distinct is its brilliant depiction of both romantic rapture and heartfelt delusion."
Sophie Ratcliffe, Daily Telegraph
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"Forensic and spare, Slack-Tide is a persuasively messy (and sinister) tale of mixed-up emotions."
Anthony Cummins, Metro
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"Dymott writes particularly well on sex, and is refreshingly comfortable with the ambiguities at play in each encounter. This psychologically intelligent study... packs a very precise punch."
Zoë Apostolides, Financial Times
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"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
