Riptide

by Justine Bothwick

Laura Crowe needs to escape. She’s graduated from university, but somehow all the things she was expecting her new adult life to involve – an interesting job, great friends, romantic relationships – have failed to materialise. She’s waitressing in a bar in Soho when her sister calls with a proposition and so Laura’s long, hot summer in a Cornish surf resort begins.
She’s hoping to find fun, romance and a new direction in life, but when she meets Catherine and Richard, filming a surf documentary, she gets embroiled in their problems, with sinister consequences. Enticed back to London at the end of the season, but with her heart – and her surf board – still firmly in Cornwall, the year culminates in a shocking chain of events that will change her forever.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2014

About the author

Justine Bothwick grew up in Kent and Hampshire, and studied in London. In 2005, she moved to Italy and now teaches English in an international secondary school in Rome. She is married to a Roman architect. Together they have a flat in the city with a small balcony on which she grows her ever expanding collection of plants and watches the local birdlife.

Justine is a graduate of the Manchester Writing School’s Creative Writing MA programme. She has short stories published in The Lonely Crowd, Fictive Dream, Confingo Magazine, and Virtual Zine, and forthcoming with Nightjar Press. Her work was highly commended in the Bath Short Story Award 2020. Her debut novel – In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced – will be published with Agora Books in June 2021.