Flood Tide

by Sara Ware Bassett

Excerpt from Flood Tide

For answer Willie would rise hastily and stand arrested, a bit of string in one hand and the hammer in the other, and peering reproachfully over the top of his steel-bowed spectacles would reply.

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338 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 2010

About the author

Sara Ware Bassett (1872 – 1968) was a prolific American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fictional Cape Cod villages she created, Belleport and Wilton.
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Reviews

[Mark Rabideau · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderfully uplifting, gentle tale of love and family.

[Thom Swennes · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story, published in 1921, wasn’t at all what I was expecting when I found it forgotten on a shelf and liberated it from the dust and grime. I was expecting a maritime tale of adventure but instead found a love story. The characters are beautifully portrayed and the prose flows from the pages in a lyrical manner. Robert Morton makes a stop, while on his way home, to visit family friends on Cape Cod. His reception was so cordial that he decided to prolong his stay. He soon meets a remarkable girl named Delight Hathaway. In true form of the times, this was love at first sight. The romantic parts aren’t particularly remarkable but the Cape Cod dialect and the interactions of the villagers is. It is positively delightful (no pun intended). It surprises me that this book is not more widely read or better known as it is a great example of the literature of this time. I recommend it to everyone as it is truly a lost and forgotten gem.