'When two people meet is it need, fantasy or love? Slack-Tide takes us on an urgent journey and kept me reading late into the night' Esther Freud It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence.
She meets Robert - exuberant, generous, apparently care-free - and they fall in love with breath-taking speed.
Slack-Tide tracks the ebbs and flows of the affair: passionate, coercive, intensely sexual.
When you've known lasting love and lost it, what price will you pay to find it again?.