Silent Tide

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When Emily Gordon editor at a London publishing house commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton's formidable widow Jacqueline who's determined to protect his secrets & the biographer charming & ambitious Joel Richards. But someone is sending Emily mysterious missives about Hugh Morton's past & she discovers a buried story that simply has to be told… One winter's day in 1948 nineteen year old Isabel Barber arrives at her Aunt Penelope's house in Earl's Court having run away from home to follow her star. A chance meeting with an East European refugee poet leads to a job with his publisher Mc Kinnon & Holt & a fascinating career beckons. But when she develops a close editorial relationship with charismatic young debut novelist Hugh Morton & the professional becomes passionately personal not only are all her plans put to flight but she finds herself in a struggle for her very survival. Rachel Hore's intriguing & suspenseful new novel magnificently evokes the milieux of London publishing past & present & connects the very different worlds of two young women Emily & Isabel who through their individual quests for truth love & happiness become inextricably linked.