GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER / JOSÉ LUIS CANO
u003cpu003eCliff and Ossie have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. Then a young couple arrive on the island. Bella, a Caribbean woman, and Peter, an Englishman, come to live on the hill overlooking the sea. And it is here, drawn by the cool flim-style house, that the harsh, bright, brittle life of urban Plymouth may be kept briefly at bay until relations become more complicated. Bella, Peter and Cliff embark on an intense, sexual relationship that leads to tension and guilt. . .u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eThere is a salt freshness to her writing, an immediacy which makes the reader catch breath for pleasure at the recognition of something exactly observed . . . Kempadoo writes hilarious comic scenes, as well as lyrically sensuous ones u003ciu003eIndependentu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003ciu003eTide Runningu003c/iu003e is a stunning book, cutting from the colourful and the comic to the dark and the sensuous with sure-footed grace u003ciu003eScotsmanu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e
