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    The House Between Tides

    Written by Sarah Maine

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

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    Following the deaths of her last living relatives, Hetty Deveraux returns to her ancestral home, a crumbling estate in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, with the intention of renovating and reselling it as a hotel. As she dives headfirst into the repairs, she discovers human remains beneath a rotting floorboard in the basement. Hungry for answers, Hetty sets out to unravel the estate’s secret—and those of its former inhabitants, including Beatrice Blake, a woman who moved there a century ago with her husband Theo, a famous painter. Following whispered rumors and a handful of leads, Hetty soon discovers that no one knows exactly what happened to Beatrice, only that her actions have reverberated throughout history, affecting Hetty’s present in startling ways.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateAug 30, 2016
    ISBN9781520017334
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    The House Between Tides
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    Sarah Maine

    Sarah Maine was born in England but grew up partly in Canada before returning to the United Kingdom, where she now lives. She is the author of The House Between Tides, Beyond the Wild River, and Women of the Dunes.

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    • 4/5
      This was a fulfilling choice for me. I loved Sarah Maine's writing style -- it was reminiscent of being enthralled by a Kate Morton story. The scenery and characters were mysterious and mesmerizing. I didn't want it to end.
    • 4/5
      An interesting piece of historic fiction where a dead body is found under the floorboards of a house. The story goes back and forth in time from the present day to a century earlier following the exploits of famous painter Theo Blake and his heirs. The vivid descriptions of time and place were beautifully scripted. The story, especially the time period in the 1900's was fascinating. There was an interesting bit of Downton Abbey style conflict between the master of the house and all of the workers on the estate. And there was also a running theme of nature conservation at the expense of the fun adventures of the rich and famous.If you're looking for good historic fiction, then this book was a fun adventure about life at the turn of the century in the Scottish Hebrides. But if you want a page turning mystery, then this was a bit slow. And although the setting descriptions were amazing, the characters were a little flat. Overall, enjoyable!
    • 4/5
      A novel based around an ancesteral home called Muirlan that present day Hetty must decide to restore or let it go. We also follow Beatrice in 1910 who newly married to painter Theo Blake spends summers on this Scottish land that is wild with birds and seals. There are mysterious bones, lots of folklore and characters and a doomed marriage and for Hetty the quest to find where she belongs in this land of her ancestors.
    • 5/5
      Great! The ending was a total surprise which is always its own reward for the reader!
    • 3/5
      When a novel includes a crumbling estate, an inheritance, a mystery and a dark secret then I've got to read it and The House Between Tides by Sarah Maine has it all.Set in Scotland, the landscape is truly the main character in this novel. It's wild and atmospheric and you can almost feel the wind in your hair, lick the salt spray from your lips and hear the squawk of the birds in the air. Unfolding in dual time frames, we learn the present story from Hetty Deveraux (2010) and the past from Beatrice in the early 1900s.I preferred the chapters from Beatrice's point of view, as I found Hetty to be a real push over. I was often frustrated by her actions and was desperate for her to make a stand but it works for the novel.The mystery unfolded at a steady pace, but it wasn't a big surprise at the end. I would have preferred a little less focus on Blake's artwork and less about his passion for bird collecting, but all in all, The House Between Tides is a solid debut for Sarah Maine. Readers who enjoy Kate Morton's novels will feel at home with Sarah Maine.* Copy courtesy of Allen & Unwin *
    • 4/5
      The tale of a once grand house, now almost a ruin in the Outer Hebrides featuring Beatrice in 1910/11 and Hetty in 2010. Both have to deal with men who would like to control them. Beatrice is married to a talented artist and Hetty has inherited the estate and has to decide what to do with it, but her plans are thwarted when bones are discovered. I loved the gentle style of writing, all the descriptions of the island, inhabitants including the wildlife and moody sea. What a wonderful debut novel and I am already looking forward to reading many more books by this talented new author.
    • 4/5
      The House Between Tides is Sarah Maine's debut novel, releasing in Canada on August 2/16.I always stop to look at a cover before turning the first page and this one definitely caught my eye. A mysterious old house surrounded by water? I'm in.Hetty Deveraux is living in London when she is contacted by a solicitor informing her that she has inherited Muirlan House in the Scottish Hebrides - a house that is only accessible twice a day from the mainland when the tides are out.Hetty is shocked, but sees the inheritance as a chance to escape London and her boyfriend. Perhaps the estate can be fixed up and turned into a hotel? But when she arrives, the damage is greater than she could have imagined. Uninhabited since 1945, the house has fallen into abject disrepair. When a set of bones is located under some floorboards, any idea of repairing the building is quickly halted. Who could the bones belong to? What happened? When? Why?Absolutely delicious! Spanning one hundred years, The House Between Tides is told in a then and now format, alternating chapters from Beatrice's voice in 1910 and Hetty's in 2010.Beatrice is the young wife of noted painter and wildlife enthusiast Theo Blake, who owns the island and manages the crofters. Life on Muirlan is not quite the idyllic experience Beatrice had imagined. There are secrets and simmering tensions between family members as well as the island community - and between Beatrice and her new husband. And neither is it quite what Hetty had envisioned either. Those secrets and tensions seem to have survived the years, affecting the present. Issues brought to light in 1910 are still relevant in 2010.Ahh, what more could you want? A rambling mansion, desolate setting, secrets, a body, suspicious and unhappy locals, love stories (yes, plural, there are two of them - one in each time frame) and a lovely, atmospheric journey to the ending where the narratives finally meet. A decidedly Gothic feel.I enjoyed both Beatrice and Hetty as lead characters. But, I was drawn more to Beatrice, for although she was constrained by the societal expectations of the time, she stayed true to herself and had spunk. Hetty is constrained more by her own self, her insecurities and her inability to speak up for herself. I enjoy dual narrative novels. The reader is privy to both timelines, able to fit together the pieces and see where they might fit together. However, I do find myself staying up late with the back and forth - I always need just 'one more chapter' before shutting off the lights.Maine paints a beautiful setting in The House Between Tides - the sea, the sun, the sand, the sky and the wildlife are all wonderfully and vividly described - making it very easy to imagine the island.I quit enjoyed The House Between Tides and look forward to Maine's next book. Fans of Kate Morton and Eve Chase would enjoy The House Between Tides.
    • 5/5
      Human remains are found in a derilict house on Muirland Island, one of the wild dramatic islands that make up the Outer Hebrides.Hetty, who is renovating the house, comes across documents pertaining to people who lived in the house 100 years ago.She sets out to solve the mystery and to discover who the skeleton was.Great read!Hope to read more from this exciting author.I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Freight Books via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.
    • 5/5
      The House Between Tides is a story that has a story line is about a house and it's past inhabitants that connects with the present day. Hetty Deveraux is left a house located in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, which is a series of islands, after a distant relative dies. She has plans to renovate and turn the house into a hotel. Unbeknownst to her the house is a crumbling mess and will cost a fortune to rebuild. Upon arriving at this house that can only be accessed when the tide is out, Hetty realizes just how difficult her intentions are. There has been a body found among the rubble that appears to have been there a long time. Not only will there need to be massive renovations but the locals do not want her to be there. They want things left as they are and let the sea claim the house. What is the identity of the body and what is the story?Theo Blake brought his wife, Beatrice, to the house around 1910 as newlyweds. Theo is a painter who is famous for his work but is now chronicling the local bird population with paintings. He has a local man assisting him with this project. Beatrice is often left to her own devices as her husband is so wrapped up in what he is doing that he neglects and seems to push his bride away. She finds companionship with the local man.Hetty slowly uncovers the secrets of the Blake's, the small community and its inhabitants all at the same time trying to figure out exactly what she should do with the property. Developers are pushing her one way but her heart is pulling her in another. The House Between Tides reminds me of books written by Phyllis Whitney, Victoria Holt or Mary Stewart in that they all have the same style of writing, moody, dark and atmospheric stories that involve romance and mystery where the male characters are often brooding and the women abound to fall in love them in spite of their moodiness and mystery.I enjoyed this story and hoped for happy endings, but as sometimes happens, that is not always the case. A definite 5 star for me.
    • 4/5
      The House Between Tides is a true Gothic novel, complete with a remote location, a creepy old house, and two heroines to root for. Hetty Deveraux in the present day and Beatrice Blake in 1910 are both a bit down-trodden by men who know what's best for them and keep to their own agendas. Both are women most readers will feel a great deal of empathy for, and both start to come to life in that remote area. Sarah Maine brings the Outer Hebrides to breathtaking, lyrical life; her descriptions were among my favorite parts of the book. Although the plot of The House Between Tides was a bit too predictable for my taste, I did enjoy the psychological aspects of it, and the author certainly has a strong talent for characterization and setting. I look forward to her next book. I recommend it if you are fans of Kate Morton or Daphne du Maurier.
    • 4/5
      3.5 Hetty, the last of her bloodline inherits Muirlan House on Scotland's Outer Hebrides. She has plans to repair and turn it into a fashionable hotel with golf course. The house though would take a fortune to repair and when a young architect with ties to the island finds bones under one of the floors a mystery begins. Whose bones are these and how did they get there?Dual storylines, time periods, from the present back to 1910 when a painter, Hetty's ancestor brings his new wife to Muirlan. This is a very atmospheric book, beautifully and written with an ethereal air. Wonderful descriptions of birds, landscape, the sea and the people, some who have lived in the crofts on the property for generations. Which is bone of dissension as many of these people were displaced during the building of the big house, which the locals consider a rich mans whimsy. Some great characters, tension, suspense, also a love triangle, wonderful paintings with a story of their own, has a little of everything but it all works awfully well together. This is one of those stories that totally encompass the reader, and I liked that most of the story was told by the perspective of 1910 and the people who inhabited that time. Just good old atmospheric story telling with a modern twist. Sometimes things in the past don't work out the way they should but bear fruit in the future. A good book to snooker down with during a thunderstorm.ARC from Netgalley.
    • 3/5
      An old house, old bones, old secrets and and old murder. If you like books that weave together two timelines this is a good book for you. At first I thought each section of timeline was too short; not giving me enough time to settle in with the characters and situation, but then they got longer. Each timeline has a heroine; Hetty in the present and Beatrice in the past. It is in the past where the titular house lives. Unfortunately, everyone in it is tortured, anguished and unhappy. Starting with Theo the misery surrounds and pushes out from him to everyone. The thing is, I never did really understand why he was so miserable. Unrequited love for a childhood friend was all there was, but it seemed pathetic and not enough of an excuse for his terrible behavior to everyone in his orbit. The fact that he killed about every wild creature he saw didn’t help matters. Oh and it took me a while to realize that the divers he keeps referring to are loons! Why not just call them that?? Of course there is a tangle of relationships and begots that can only be threaded by modern DNA and that does come through in the end. Luckily it is the end so you don’t have to keep track of how people are related, but all through the book you will have your suspicions.Although the past timeline doesn’t end happily, the present does and it was nice to see Hetty finally open her mouth and assert herself. Sure she had some rebellious thoughts, but she was very passive throughout. Giles, the agents, James Cameron - they all basically pushed her down their agendas and she went with it as long as it allowed her to pursue the house’s history. Overall satisfying if not highly original or surprising. I’ve put her newest book on my library list.
    • 4/5
      Following the death of her last living relative, Hetty Deveraux leaves London and her strained relationship behind for Muirlan, her ancestral home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. She intends to renovate the ruinous house into a hotel, but the shocking discovery of human remains brings her ambitious restoration plans to an abrupt halt before they even begin. Few physical clues are left to identify the body, but one thing is certain: this person did not die a natural death.Hungry for answers, Hetty discovers that Muirlan was once the refuge of her distant relative Theo Blake, the acclaimed painter and naturalist who brought his new bride, Beatrice, there in 1910. Yet ancient gossip and a handful of leads reveal that their marriage was far from perfect; Beatrice eventually vanished from the island, never to return, and Theo withdrew from society, his paintings becoming increasingly dark and disturbing. What happened between them has remained a mystery, but as Hetty listens to the locals and studies the masterful paintings produced by Theo during his short-lived marriage, she uncovers secrets that still reverberate through the small island community—and will lead her to the identity of the long-hidden body.What Did I Think?100 years separate the past story from the present story which is told from the view points of Hetty in the present and her ancestor Beatrice in the past. Hetty dreamed of turning the house her aunt had left her into a beautiful hotel in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Hetty had never seen the area where the house was located so the reality was more than she had ever bargained for. Not only was the house in danger of falling into the sea but there was an unwelcome guest already in residence...it had been there for the better part f 100 years. This was Sarah Maine's first novel and she has created a top rate story. I can't say that it's exactly a riveting mystery but it certainly bears all the elements of intriguing. If you are drawn to the wild Scottish landscape and historical romance and mystery are what you love in a book...they you'll love this one.
    • 4/5
      THE HOUSE OF TIDES drew me in with its eerie crumbling mansion complete with a mysterious skeleton hidden inside. The story is set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and the land upon which Muirlan House sits is only accessible when the tides are out. The author created a wonderfully creepy Gothic atmosphere with this tumbledown house and isolated location.The story alternates between different time periods – 2010, when Hetty inherits the house, and at the turn of the last century, when artist Theo Blake lived there with his young wife, Beatrice. While the murder mystery was intriguing, I had a hard time clicking with the characters, especially Hetty, who acted like a meek doormat a lot of the time. Beatrice was my favorite by far, she had spirit, though all the talk about Theo’s bird obsession slowed the pace down.This book is a nice mix of quiet mystery/suspense, romance, and historical fiction. A bit slow in parts, but still kept me curious about the ending.Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      The House Between Tidesby Sarah MaineI loved Sarah Maine's debut novel.A part of that is attributable to the reading by Justine Eyre.The story revolves around a crumbling ancestral mansion.Hetty Devereaux (2010) has inherited an estate in Scotland'sOuter Hebrides.Our second protagonist is Beatrice Blake (1910) who then inhabits the estate with husband Theo, a celebrated painter.This is a novel of atmospheric suspense..Sarah Maine beautifully communicated to me the literal lay of the land, well defined characters and what I thought was a very workable plot.The story begins with Hetty visiting the mansion to assess repairs needed and inadvertently discovering human remains beneath a rotting floor board.The two time lines blend fittingly.4.5 ★
    • 5/5
      From 1910 to 2010, The Isle of Skye, inherited castles, and human bones.THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES takes us back to 1910 when Theo and Beatrice Blake spent their summers in Muirlan House in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and then to present day when Hetty inherits the ruins of the house with hopes of turning it into a hotel.Theo and Beatrice Blake didn't do too much to make Muirlan House a home so when Hetty arrived to see her inheritance many years later, she was taken by surprise to see it in ruins and more surprised to find bones buried under the rotting floorboards.THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES was a lovely read for me especially because of the setting. I enjoyed going back and forth in time to see how the characters lived then and how they lived now.The characters themselves were interesting because of the jobs they had on the estate in 1910 and present-day Hetty who really had no clue how to live in this remote area with peat as the heating source, the constant rain, and having to be mindful of the tides.The connection Hetty had to her ancestral family was not very strong, but strong and interesting enough to want to find things out about the family's history. And what a history it is. All she has for information, though, are photographs, paintings, a few letters, and the ruins of Muirlan House. Will these bits of evidence reveal the answers to whose bones were found as well as the mystery of who Theo Blake was and what his connection is to the girl in his earlier photos?THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES is a very captivating read. The detailed, marvelous descriptions of the life and the setting are wonderful. You could just feel yourself at the social gatherings, feel the rain, feel the tension between characters, and feel the dreariness of the landscape.If you enjoy traveling back and forth in time, mysteries, finding old letters, love affairs, and figuring out family connections, you will love THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES. We also can’t forget that alluring, eerie, pull-you-in cover. It definitely sets the stage for the book.ENJOY if you read THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES. A marvelous summer read or any-time-of-the-year read. 5/5This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher in return for an honest review.