Tide is an 'urgent and powerful' (Kiran Millwood Hargrave) novel about motherhood, marriage and the perils of denying a woman's truth, that will appeal to readers who inhaled Soldier Sailor, the edginess of Lullaby and the twisting of truth in Disclaimer.

WHAT KIND OF MOTHER IS SHE?

In present-day West London, Imogen struggles to connect with her young son, preferring her stay-at-home husband to take the lead. Everything about Imogen is wrong: her lack of maternal instinct, her investment in her work and her impatience. At her husband's insistence, she agrees to take her son to the river to mudlark, only to watch in horror as he is dragged into the water, never to be seen again.

In the aftermath as the police search unfolds Imogen's sanity is called into question. Something dark and festering appears in her vision of the water's edge. But she forces herself to alter her story, and as her lies mount, the frayed edges of her marriage begin to expose deeper cracks that are impossible to ignore.

Propulsive and unnerving, Tide shows a relationship in ruin and a mother, reeling and unmoored, who just wants to be believed. Anna Richmond asserts a fresh and haunting impression of what it means to be unseen in a marriage and how far one woman will go to reclaim herself.