Secrets Of The Tides

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The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago they are each in their own way struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora the youngest daughter lives in a ramshackle East End warehouse with her artist boyfriend Dan. Dora is doing a good job of skating across the surface of her life
- but when she discovers she is pregnant the news leaves her shaken & staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt. Returning to Clifftops the rambling family house perched high on the Dorset coastline Dora must confront her past. Clifftops hasnt changed in years & moving through its rooms & gardens Dora can still feel the echo of that terrible summers day when life changed forever for the Tides. As Dora begins her search for clues surrounding the events of that fateful day she comes to realise that the path to redemption may rest with her troubled sister Cassie. If Dora can unlock the secrets Cassie swore she would take to her grave just maybe she will have a shot at salvation. But can long-held secrets ever really be forgiven? & even if you do manage to forgive & forget how do you ever allow yourself to truly love again? See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Secrets Of The Tides See Hannah Richell talk about her book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Secrets Of The Tides Judys Review This gripping book is a sweeping generational saga exploring the tragic secrets of what was once an ordinary happy family. Dora the now-grown-up youngest daughter is pregnant at the start of the novel delighted & totally happy in her relationship with young artist Dan but deeply ambivalent about her fitness to be a mother. She needs to revisit her past to find some resolution to the tragedy which blighted the lives of her family long ago. So Dora returns to Clifftops the lovely old house by the sea in Dorset where she was brought up. There she meets her estranged mother Helen who lives alone in the big house. Helen is hostile & cold; implacable in her fierce rejection of her daughter. At Clifftops in a series of flashbacks the story of how the Tide family disintegrated gradually unfolds. The cause of their shattered lives lies in years past when Dora & older sister Cassie were left to take care of their baby brother Alfie on a trip to the beach. The three year old disappeared never to be seen again. So these are the secrets of the Tides. What happened to Alfie? Why did Cassie & Dora let him out of their sight? Why was their mother Helen not with them that terrible day when she & her husband Richard had a rule that Alfie was only ever al"