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Book SynopsisA newly reissued novel from the author of Girl, one of the most celebrated writers in the English language (NPR's Weekend Edition)
As her disturbing novel clearly reveals, Edna O'Brien possesses what Henry James called an imagination for
disaster...[Time and Tide] is an anthology of heightened moments...never less than brilliantly expressed. Joel Conarroe, The New York Times Book Review
Time and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves and catastrophesand catastrophic lovesof Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London.
A whimsical beauty who has swapped the suffocating narrowness of her native land for the loveless brutality of England (The Independent), Nell is in flight from bitter, controlling, and small-minded parents, yet risks becoming just such a mother to her own sons. She seeks comfort and acceptance, yet finds death, drugs, and an orgy of humil
