Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing & rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral He is a good man & he is happy But one day he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that for no apparent reason fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed & stopped breathing In that moment he is plunged into a world of waiting agonising not knowing The story of his life & the lives of his family are rewritten & re-told around this shocking central event around a body that has inexplicably failed In this exceptionally courageous & unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look & the result is riveting
- unbearably sad but also miraculously funny & ultimately hopeful The Tidal Zone explores parental love overwhelming fear illness & recovery It is about clever teenagers & the challenges of marriage It is about the NHS academia sex & gender in the twenty-first century the work-life juggle & the politics of packing lunches & loading dishwashers It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction & a writer of luminous intelligence