Author:Stella Tillyard
Newly-wed Harriet stands poised on the threshold of the adult world. Her husband, James, is setting off to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain and left alone in London, Harriet is taken under the wing of Lady Wellington. While Harriet plunges into a new life of freedom at home, James faces the bloody reality of the battlefield.
As war rages abroad and England stands on the brink of change, Harriet and James face hope and heartache in equal measure. From the mantillas and palms of Seville to the gas lamps of foggy London, Tides of War returns us to the vivid, lost world of the past.
Hugely enjoyable... Intelligent, classy, entertaining
—— The TimesSeldom, since reading Jane Austen, have I so wanted to slip between the pages of a book and become one of its characters… She makes fiction as real as history and considerably more compelling
—— Lucy Kellaway , Financial TimesMarvellous... Her descriptions are wonderful
—— Sunday TimesTillyard perfectly inhabits her period... Gradually the plot's threads tighten to reveal a perfectly sprung novel
—— Daily TelegraphDazzling - I love this book. It's beautifully written, the characters are deeply involving and the historical settings are so right - in short, Tides of War is a triumph
—— Simon SchamaOne of the most assured debuts in years...a modern novel that is the perfect answer to anyone who thinks the past is out of date
—— Amanda Foreman , Financial TimesTides of War is elegantly written, with passages of verve and...poignancy
—— Matthew Dennison , IndependentA perfectly sprung novel of the sort that owes more to Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell than Patrick O'Brian or Bernard Cornwall
—— Daily TelegraphLove, betrayal, war and peace charge this powerful debut
—— Fanny Blake , Woman & HomeTillyard writes in fluid, largely understated prose and her descriptions are wonderful
—— Lucy Atkins , Sunday TimesTillyard is a fluent and attractive chronicler of detail and some of her imaginative liberties are ingenious
—— Jane Shilling , Sunday TelegraphThis saga of lives swept up in the Peninsular War recalls Georgette Heyer at her best...impossible to put down
—— Kate Saunders , SagaA thrilling romance brought to life with exquisite detail
—— PrimaA prodigious talent able to combine meticulous research with novelistic devices...there is much to enjoy and admire
—— Norma Clarke , Times Literary SupplementFluently written and impeccably researched
—— The LadyGripping
—— Easy LivingIt is time we stopped thinking of the historical novel as a genre, and an inferior one at that. If its ostensible subject matter means that it doesn't attempt to tell us how we live now, nevertheless a novel set back in time may, if it is good, say as much about what it is to be alive as one set in the next street or another country today. Tides of War is such a novel. It is diverting, but not a diversion
—— The SpectatorA well written, engaging read...beautifully observed
—— History TodayA vivid account of a couple of years in the Peninsula Campaign and a sympathetic portrait of those left behind
—— Joanna Hines , Literary ReviewA delicious novel by an experienced author who captures the scientific atmosphere of the early 19th century with a devastating study of infidelity
—— Colin Gardiner , Oxford TimesThe real life players of the Napoleonic era spring to life
—— iCompelling
—— Big IssueHighly assured and almost educational with its broad sweep of history
—— Jane Housham , GuardianTillyard’s achievement is in this original portray log the Regency era and its relevance to our own time
—— Philippa Williams , The Lady
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