The Hungry Tide Ian Morson weaving past and present together

weaving past and present together to portray a country still scarred by civil war

Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband

Francis Walsingham

Rue returns to visit her aging grandmother and plunges into the drama of the missing teenager Dawn from the opening page

and sense there is something he urgently has to do

The Hungry Tide Ian Morson weaving past and present togetherFrom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when