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Tideline

Tideline

Author(s): Penny Hancock

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn’t going to let him leave. As Sonia’s desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship, which gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia’s home since childhood, holds secrets within its walls. And outside, on the shores of the Thames, new ones are coming in on the tide…

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A clever, creepy thriller about misplaced affection and abduction, with a riverside location as an eerie backdrop –Marie Claire “The visual descriptions of the river and the house are incredibly compelling I would like...

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Greenwich & the River Thames play a key role in this atmospheric thriller about a woman’s obsession with the past

Set in Greenwich, at the darkest end of Winter, when spring seems to be so close and yet so far away, Sonia’s life is unravelling around her. Her daughter is happily ensconced at University,...

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