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The Rising Tide
- Author
- Molly Keane
- Narrator
- Aoife McMahon
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 24 June 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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She was . . . marvellous
Guardian
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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
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Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit
Irish Times
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She is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minute of human behaviour
Polly Devlin
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I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved
Diana Athill
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The characterisation of women is first class
Sebastian Faulks
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A writer of genius
Wall Street Journal
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Molly Keane ... is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart...
V.S. Pritchett
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Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit
IRISH TIMES
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The characterisation of women is first class
Sebastian Faulks
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Details
- Author
- Molly Keane
- Narrator
- Aoife McMahon
- Duration
- 9 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781405549905
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Classic fiction: literary and general, Romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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.
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