The Rising Tide, Molly Keane
The Rising Tide, Molly Keane
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The Rising Tide

Author: Molly Keane

Narrator: Aoife McMahon

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2021

Synopsis

BY THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

INTRODUCED BY POLLY DEVLIN

'Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit' IRISH TIMES

'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN

'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL

One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .

Lady Charlotte French-McGrath has successfully ruled over her family with a rod of iron until the arrival of Cynthia: beautiful, young, talented, selfish - and engaged to her son Desmond.

When Cynthia enters the Jazz Age, on the surface her life passes in a whirl of hunting, drinking and romance. But the ghosts of Garonlea are only biding their time: they know the source of their power, a secret handed on from one generation to the next.

About Molly Keane

Molly Keane (1904-1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. In 1981, Good Behaviour came out under her own name. The novel was warmly received and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on January 03, 2022

A wild, intense ride! A distress call from Lucy's husband comes into the Coastguard station. "Is he okay?" Lucy asks. She is told that he is still missing. Something happened out there in the sea. Lucy has to face reality. A gripping, fast paced story with a great cast of characters. I really enjoyed D......more

Goodreads review by Debra on March 29, 2022

Lucy had everything until the morning that the family yacht was recovered far out to sea, her husband is missing. Was he on the yacht? Where is he now? What happened? Getting these questions answered will not be so easy as a storm is raging.... Many are loving this book while I found it to be good no......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on April 01, 2021

Lucy Locke’s happy life in the coastal town of Skental changes on a dime when her husband Daniel maydays from their boat. The events that follow are the stuff of nightmares. DI Abraham Rose is the lead place investigator. Having been utterly blown away by Sam Lloyd’s debut The Memory Wood I awaited t......more

Goodreads review by Nina (ninjasbooks) on January 29, 2023

Lloyds books does something to you. I felt raw and exposed by the story, emotions and beautiful writing that transported me to another sphere. It’s hard not to be affected by the acute and bewildering loss Lucy faces. You feel as confused and hurt as her, and really hope all will go well. I also lik......more

Goodreads review by Jen on December 22, 2021

Lucy Locke has come a long way since arriving back to her hometown with a small child in tow. She met the love of her life Daniel, they both started successful businesses, and the two had another beautiful child. But all of it is about to come crashing down when Daniel unexpectedly takes the family......more

Quotes

She was . . . marvellous Guardian

Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape Evening Standard

Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit Irish Times

She is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minute of human behaviour

I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved

The characterisation of women is first class

A writer of genius Wall Street Journal

Molly Keane ... is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart... V.S. Pritchett

Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit IRISH TIMES

The characterisation of women is first class Sebastian Faulks

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