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Against The Tide

Theresa Tomlinson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:23rd Oct '12

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A three-in-one volume of historical stories set on the north-east coast of Yorkshire where life for the fisher-folk is tough and dangerous and it requires determination and often ingenuity for the families to survive.

Describes the courage and humour with which the fishing families face up to the hard conditions of their lives. This book includes three stories "The Flither Pickers", "The Herring Girls" and "Beneath Burning Mountain".

Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes the courage and humour with which the fishing families face up to the hard conditions of their lives.

THE FLITHER PICKERS of Sandwick Bay spend their days gathering shellfish on the shore - limpets and mussels - and baiting the lines for the fishermen . The story centres on young Liza Welford whose mother is haunted by an accident in the past.

In THE HERRING GIRLS, when tragedy strikes the Lythe family, 13-year-old Dory joins the tough world of the Scotch herring girls in Whitby in order to earn money and save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse.

Family life is destroyed for Ann and Polly Lancroft in BENEATH BURNING MOUNTAIN when the violent and merciless press-gangs invade the cliffs where men and women create alum crystals for a livelihood - and their home is wiped out by a sudden landslide.

Skilfully blending fiction with reality, Theresa Tomlinson has written three moving and absorbing stories of close-knit communities of fisher-folk a hundred years ago whose whole existence is governed by the sea.

A gritty, touching novel of the North Yorkshire coast * Guardian *
The mantle of Rosemary Sutcliff hangs over this talented writer * Independent *
A small masterpiece * Financial Times *
Theresa Tomlinson's skill lies chiefly in creating believable characters whose emotional lives are so real that the reader is compelled to turn the page...no reader, young or old, can read these stirring stories with indifference. * Inis *
'Three of Teresa's most gripping novels' * Teaching & Learning *

ISBN: 9780552561662

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm

Weight: 277g

259 pages

Combined volume