ISBN: 9781038945549
Blackgum Item Code: HARC0790
Title: Daughters of the Tide
Author: Arianne James
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RRP: $32.99
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The Findlay family history has long been steeped in secrets, tragedy and dark rumours of madness. Generations of its women have been haunted by a dangerous luring melody and an insatiable longing for the sea.

It's 1923 and Isla Findlay lives with her parents on the edge of the ocean in Tasmania, in a rambling mansion full of whispers of this cursed legacy. When Isla discovers her estranged aunt is finally coming home, long-repressed memories of the selkie stories of her childhood start to resurface, along with disturbing dreams of seals and an eerie song that Isla starts to hear even in her waking hours.

As the line between what's real and imagined starts to blur, Isla and her aunt and mother must reckon with long-held secrets and ghosts who have not been properly laid to rest. The closer they get to the truths of the past, the louder they hear the seductive call of the ocean. Does it sing of freedom, or only more tragedy?

Arianne is a writer of fiction and an avid reader. She lives in Hobart on the beautiful island of lutruwita, Tasmania, surrounded by the ocean and an ever watchful mountain. Her stories have been published in The Hunter Writers Centre's Grieve anthology, Swinburne University's journals Backstory and Other Terrain, Corvid Queen magazine and Voices of the Southern Ocean. Arianne holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (2017) and First-Class Honours in Creative Writing (2019) from the University of Tasmania, and is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy (2024). Her writing has taken her on residencies to Varuna, KSP Writers Centre, Patterdale House and Chateau d'Orquevaux. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett mentorship, and in 2022 shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Young Writers Fellowship at the Tasmanian Literary Awards. She coordinates TasWriters youth workshop program, and hosts The Book Shelf on Edge Radio (99.3FM), where she interviews people from the Tasmanian literary community and beyond. She is currently working on her second work of historical fiction.