• The Rising Tide by Molly Keane
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The Rising Tide

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    • Molly Keane
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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.
  • Published: Jun 01 2006
  • Pages: 336
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781844083268
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Press Reviews

  • Wall Street Journal
    A writer of genius
  • Guardian
    She was . . . marvellous

  • Diana Athill

    I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved
  • Evening Standard
    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
  • Irish Times
    Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit

  • Sebastian Faulks

    The characterisation of women is first class

  • Polly Devlin

    She is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minute of human behaviour
  • V.S. Pritchett
    Molly Keane ... is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart...
  • IRISH TIMES
    Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit
  • Sebastian Faulks
    The characterisation of women is first class