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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 A Jealous Tide
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'A restless woman upends her world, abandoning her domestic inertia to seek refuge in a foreign hemisphere. Purposefully unsettled on the labyrinthine streets of London, she assembles a new routine amid the afterglow of a story from a century earlier. A traumatised widow, doubly bereaved, threw herself into the icy Thames. A shell-shocked soldier, heading home from war, gave himself to the depths to save her. Now disoriented by slippages in time as well as place, the woman begins imagining her own presence in the lives of these two strangers entwined by fate. But as her days blur together, as her intrigue becomes obsession, and as her sympathies grow to encompass all manner of souls lost to water — drowned, shipwrecked, cast adrift, or driven to the poles of the planet — she feels her restlessness returning with all the power of a tide in flood.

'In this mesmerising début novel, Anna MacDonald finds a language of perpetual motion for an almost static experience of interior life. Lyrical, lilting, and melodious, her gentle words rise into rhythms that surge forth, then break and recede, leaving treasures in their wake. Hers is the poetry of alienation embodied: corporeal and sensory, spatial and recursive, making magic from a tilt of the head, a turn of the gaze, a stride, a halt, an interplay of gesture and orientation. In her dizzying proliferation of spirals and orbits, trajectories and bearings, her every sentence is a search for traction on a world that bewilders anew with every daily revolution.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      image of person or book cover 8028437859956865873.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 214p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 30th July 2020
      ISBN: 9781916173071

Works about this Work

‘Still and Still Moving’ : Anna MacDonald’s Painterly Eye Polly Simons , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 43)

— Review of A Jealous Tide Anna MacDonald , 2020 single work novel
Books Roundup Various , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2020;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel ; A Jealous Tide Anna MacDonald , 2020 single work novel ; Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020 anthology short story
Books Roundup Various , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2020;

— Review of Lucky's Andrew Pippos , 2020 single work novel ; A Jealous Tide Anna MacDonald , 2020 single work novel ; Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020 anthology short story
‘Still and Still Moving’ : Anna MacDonald’s Painterly Eye Polly Simons , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 43)

— Review of A Jealous Tide Anna MacDonald , 2020 single work novel
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