Tomorrow's Tide
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Publisher Description
An abandoned baby leads a teenage girl to a brilliant career. In 1910 young teenager Jennifer Owen discovers an abandoned baby in a field, wrapped up with a penny for luck. Years later, with the help of society hostess Millicent Colston-Smart, she decides to track the child down. The trail (and that exact penny) leads to some startling discoveries for all concerned.
When this book was first published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, in 1996, it attracted the following notices:
● Some books keep you hooked from start to finish and this is one of them — [syndicated review]
● Some wonderful characters and witty dialogue. Jennifer's escapades are like a whirlpool that sucks you in and throws you out at the end, tired but exhilarated — Herald Express
● Bringing his characteristic ingenuousness to another well-executed historical romance, Macdonald ... delivers all the comforting sentimental pleasures that readers have grown to expect from him — Publishers Weekly
● Weaves a heart-wrenching story of love, acceptance, and tolerance — Romantic Times
● A superbly written novel — Midwest Book Review
● No one handles this sort of somber historical romance better than Macdonald, and this his latest outing shows no decline in his storytelling gifts. Unsurprising but effective — Kirkus
And, of Macdonald himself:
● He is every bit as bad as Dickens – Martin Seymour-Smith
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bringing his characteristic ingenuousness to another well-executed historical romance, Macdonald (Kernow & Daughter) portrays a young girl's psychosexual wellsprings against a backdrop of social and technological upheaval. In provincial Cornwall, Jennifer Owen's coming to young womanhood is foreshadowed by two seemingly unrelated events: in 1910, at age 14, she discovers an abandoned baby boy, whom her mother promptly turns over to a local orphanage; two years later, in a starcrossed encounter, she becomes infatuated with Barry Moore, a local Romeo widely known as a "buck rabbit with a bicycle." When WWI breaks out, Jennifer's father is killed in London by a bomb dropped from a German zeppelin. Jennifer, to assist her mother in rearing her younger siblings, takes employment with the imperious Mrs. Colston-Smart, helping to convert her opulent family estate into a convalescent hospital for the combat-wounded. Her smoldering passion for Barry, now an officer, is finally consummated when he's sent to recover from a war injury. But their romance is short-lived, as Barry is sent back to duty, leaving readers wondering what, if anything, he has to do with the ongoing mystery of the abandoned baby. Meanwhile, Jennifer, wooed by movie talent scouts, is torn between caring for the wounded and a chance for fame. Vivid views of the countryside and scenes that reveal the rigid classism of English society spice a narrative that delivers all the comforting sentimental pleasures that readers have grown to expect from Macdonald.
