The Sudden Tide Twentieth Century Fiction

By Sue Whisstock | Buy online – 799

OxIA Bookstore price – 799

One resilient woman facing adversity, vows to protect her children against a world threatening their future. Show more

One resilient woman facing adversity, vows to protect her children against a world threatening their future.

Vivienne is living her best life; great career, good-looking husband, two lovely children and a home in the country - so she thinks. That is, until she discovers that nothing is as it seems. Can she face up to the threats, from home and abroad, to survive and protect her children.

Crosswinds Historical

By Sue Whisstock | Buy online – 650

OxIA Bookstore price – 650

‘A wonderful book club read’ Show more

‘A wonderful book club read’
‘Crosswinds’ is a character-driven novel with a strong sense of place and evocation of the times.
Ellen, a WW2 Royal Navy Wren finds herself in a Maine fishing village, married to Grant, the American soldier she barely recognises. Grant survives Omaha but comes back changed by war. Ellen has escaped her family roots. Their marriage begins in six feet of snow, Ellen spends her first day gutting fish, and nothing is as it seems. Later, daughter Thea, grows up in 60’s London, determined to build her career as a scientist and make a success of her marriage to Josef, who is magnetic but difficult.
You will cross the Atlantic many times with Ellen and Thea, and face with them, the challenges of a mother and daughter separated by an ocean; while sharing in some of their difficult life choices, set against a fast-moving backdrop of the social and political changes of the second half of the 20th century.

A History of Whisstock's Boatyard Memoir

By Sue Whisstock | Buy online – 1299

OxIA Bookstore price – 1299

Classic Sailor Magazine Book Review

"Sue Whisstock, Claude's daughter has produced a useful and generously illustrated memoir charting the yard's history, its range of boats, and some of its famous customers."