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The Restless Sea

Pages
544
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1912, the Morland family faces a world on the brink of massive change as Teddy and his relatives board the Titanic for its first voyage. While those at home struggle with the constraints of marriage and the dawn of aviation, a sense of dread hangs over their personal lives. The looming shadow of the Great War threatens to sweep away their individual concerns and change England forever.

About the author

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy. She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 w...

Characters

Teddy MorlandProtagonist
Alice MorlandProtagonist
Henrietta MorlandProtagonist
Jessie MorlandProtagonist
Jack MorlandProtagonist
All characters in The Restless Sea