Against The Tide
Theresa Tomlinson
  • Published: 30 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552561662
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 259
  • RRP: $24.99

Against The Tide

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A three-in-one volume of historical stories set on the north-east coast of Yorkshire where life for the fisher-folk is tough and dangerous and it requires determination and often ingenuity for the families to survive.

Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes the courage and humour with which the fishing families face up to the hard conditions of their lives.

THE FLITHER PICKERS of Sandwick Bay spend their days gathering shellfish on the shore - limpets and mussels - and baiting the lines for the fishermen . The story centres on young Liza Welford whose mother is haunted by an accident in the past.

In THE HERRING GIRLS, when tragedy strikes the Lythe family, 13-year-old Dory joins the tough world of the Scotch herring girls in Whitby in order to earn money and save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse.

Family life is destroyed for Ann and Polly Lancroft in BENEATH BURNING MOUNTAIN when the violent and merciless press-gangs invade the cliffs where men and women create alum crystals for a livelihood - and their home is wiped out by a sudden landslide.

Skilfully blending fiction with reality, Theresa Tomlinson has written three moving and absorbing stories of close-knit communities of fisher-folk a hundred years ago whose whole existence is governed by the sea.
  • Published: 30 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552561662
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 259
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Theresa Tomlinson

Theresa Tomlinson was born in Sussex. The daughter of a vicar, she spent her early childhood in various places in the north of England. As a child she had no interest in writing, but she loved reading. Her main interest was drawing and painting. She attended Hull College of Art, and later trained as a teacher at Hull College of Education. She taught as an infant teacher for five years

Theresa and her husband live in Whitby, North Yorkshire, where Theresa spent her childhood. Over the years she has acquired an outstanding reputation for her historical novels, particularly those, like Wolf Girl, set on the north-east coast of England.

Shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal and for the Sheffield Children's Book Award, Theresa takes a keen interest in the area where she lives.
Recent visits to Turkey have fuelled her enthusiasm for the ancient mythology of that part of the world. Her scrupulous research has resulted in two epic stories, The Moon Riders and Voyage of the Snake Lady.

Also by Theresa Tomlinson

Dancing Through The Shadows
The Rope Carrier
The Cellar Lad
Wolf Girl
The Moon Riders
Voyage Of The Snake Lady
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Praise for Against The Tide

'Three of Teresa's most gripping novels'

Teaching & Learning

Article about book signing in Whitby

Whitby Gazette

These three stories are moving, powerful and enlightening.

Through the Looking Glass

Full of convincing local detail.

Bournemouth Daily Echo

Theresa Tomlinson's skill lies chiefly in creating believable characters whose emotional lives are so real that the reader is compelled to turn the page...no reader, young or old, can read these stirring stories with indifference.

Inis

The mantle of Rosemary Sutcliff hangs over this talented writer

Independent

A gritty, touching novel of the North Yorkshire coast

Guardian

A small masterpiece

Financial Times