Keeper of Tides
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2014
- Category
- Literary, Contemporary Women
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550814835
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550814842
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $17.99
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Description
At age ninety-two, Ivadoile Spears is in the grip of early dementia. Alone except for a cat named Rose and an old cedar box filled with photographs, Ivadoile is stubbornly set on living out her remaining years in the now-vacant Tides Inn on Cape Breton Island. The only child of cold and withdrawn parents and widowed by the age of twenty-eight, a younger Ivadoile turned the Tides Inn into a retreat for the broken-spirited. But she had not been prepared for Ambrose Kane – a southerner who entered, bringing a cold wind in his dirty shirt.
About the author
BEATRICE MACNEIL is the bestselling author of Where White Horses Gallop, which was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; Butterflies Dance in the Dark; Keeper of Tides; The Geranium Window; and her short story collection, The Moonlight Skater. She received the Tic Butler Award for outstanding contribution to Cape Breton writing and culture, and has won the Dartmouth Book Award on three occasions. The Girl He Left behind is her fifth novel. Beatrice MacNeil lives in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
