Tides Must Turn

Release on 2004 | by Gaynor Hensman

Even if she turned up once an arrangement had been made, she knew from previous experiences that her friend would ... Very strange behaviour in a young woman who should be enjoying all the attention they seemed to elicit from the ...

Author: Gaynor Hensman
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781412033695
Category: Fiction
Page: 241
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Her hands lay limply in her lap and if Joyce looked closely she could see the small broken pieces of skin and minuscule areas of scar tissue, which were the remnants of Melissa's habit of biting at her fingers around the nails when she was anxious, nervous or excited. Her legs swayed very slightly in the space between the high hospital bed and the floor below. Then very slowly, her voice almost inaudible like a whisper from the past, she began to speak and as she did so Joyce took her hand and stroked it affirming an unspoken trust that now seemed to exist between them. Autumn, 1971 - what will Melissa reveal to the midwife, Joyce, about the three years preceding the birth of this baby girl she seems determined to reject? Will she reveal who the father is? More importantly will she be able to share with Joyce the most awful secret of all? Spring, 1969 - Melissa is 15 and her world changes forever when she meets the artist and teacher - Jonathan. He tells her she looks uncannily like Lizzy Siddal the artist's model who married Rossetti and died so tragically. When Melissa models for Jonathan secretly can they develop a friendship that is purely platonic when both of them want more? This is a story of the pain and pleasure of first love, of friendship and unconditional loyalty, of sexual awakening and discovery, of unbearable choices and ultimately of hope - without which there is no future. From Lancashire and London in England to Toledo and Barcelona in Spain we touch on the lives of many characters most of whom harbour their own secrets. Often hilarious and at times heartbreaking this powerful and evocative novel contains a devastating twist that is totally unpredictable.

Language: en
Pages: 241

Tides Must Turn

Authors: Gaynor Hensman

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Language: en
Pages:

The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean

Authors: William Vincent

Categories: Classical geography

Type: BOOK - Published: 1807 - Publisher:

Books about The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean

Language: en
Pages: 344

Biology and the Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment

Authors: Mark Denny

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

This text introduces and draws together pertinent aspects of fluid dynamics, physical oceanography, solid mechanics, and organismal biology to provide a much-needed set of tools for quantitatively examining the biological effects of ocean waves. "Nowhere on earth does water move as violently as on wave-swept coasts," writes the author, "and