The Hungry Tide k50

The Hungry Tide k50The first winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize, this is a family saga set on the Yorkshire coast at the turn of the 18th century. For generations, a stubborn population of farmers and fishermen has struggled against the encroachments of the sea that is the background to their lives. In the slums of Hull, at the turn of the eighteenth century, lived Will and Maria Foster, constantly fighting a war against poverty, disease and crime. Will was a whaler,

Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger

ISBN: 9780340820360

Dr Emma Watson

Choices are made

But time is running out and Ren must catch a killer before he catches her…

and self-respect amidst the struggles of her life

What is it that draws them together

where Confederate victory was once almost certain

by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru

knows it very well

A forgotten house and a secret hidden for a century…Following the breakdown of her marriage

the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud of the Battle of Passchendale to working on the home front in the Second World War and fame in later life as a veteran