Margaret Castle

It's 1935 and Hilda Tyson and her children are barely surviving after her husband Arthur catches tuberculosis. When Arthur's family comes calling, Hilda finds herself transplanted from poverty in London to reliance on Arthur's extended family in Lincolnshire. The seaside town of Mablethorpe is another world compared to her native London and Hilda has to begin her life from scratch among strangers. War brings further upheaval, but it is after the war as a new queen's reign begins, that a terrible disaster is gathering itself out at sea.

This family saga is based against true events. You will immerse yourself in the time, living among the Tysons, and experience with them the terrible storm surge of 1953 that took over two thousand lives in one horrific night.

"A beautifully written book"

"An emotional read"

"A fascinating insight into a major disaster on the East coast of England which we never hear about."