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Children Of The Tide

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Children Of The Tide

By: Val Wood
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby – the home of the wealthy Rayners. She knocks at the door, and shoves the baby at young James Rayner. The father was ‘young Mr Rayner’, and the mother is dead. Then she vanishes.

The respectable shipping family of Hull are shattered. No one wants to take responsibility for the baby and it is about to be put into an orphanage when Sammi, James’s cousin, decides to take the baby back to her parents’ home on the Holderness coast. James is banished to London, and disaster begins to beset the three branches of the Rayners.

The third novel in The Hungry Tide sequence, this epic, many-faceted story of three related families tells the triumphs and tragedies of their lives, as the whaling industry of Hull begins to decline, and the farmlands and homes continue to slip into the sea.

If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

 Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt

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Wonderful story as always, read beautifully by Anne Dover. Lots of twists and turns right to the end. I highly recommend this book.

A must read

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lovely story and was good to follow all the characters through to the end.
would recommend.
Anne Dover was brilliant as usual.

Good but not as good as books 1 and 2.

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the narrator was good the story was strong I got carried along with the plot

exciting loved it didn't want to stop listening

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I have enjoyed all the children of the tide books, and would love to see a sequel about Tom and Sammy’s life and what happened to mark
Great Narrator, she tells it beautifully

Lovely story

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Couldn't stop listening, had to listen to the end. Really loved this story a lot.

Great story!

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