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Title:

AGAINST THE TIDE

By:

Theresa Tomlinson

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0552561665

ISBN 13:

9780552561662

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Publisher:

RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S PUBLISHERS UK

Pub. date:

1 September, 2012

Pages:

259

Description:

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".

Synopsis:

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.

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Corgi Childrens

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