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The Tidal Zone


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Family Drama,
  • Medical Drama,
  • Contemporary Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Intense family dramas sparked by sudden medical emergencies
  • Stay-at-home dads navigating academia and domestic life
  • Sharp takes on NHS, modern parenting, and everyday marriage politics
Publisher Description

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing.

The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers.

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