Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory

by Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe Narrated by Michael Kramer

Overview

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author's brilliance in Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory.

The members of the formidable and captivating De Vere family of London live enviable lives in the world's most powerful and desirable places, from London's poshest neighborhoods to influential boardrooms. But when old secrets begin to unravel and threaten everything the De Veres have worked for, the ramifications are deadly.

Bagshawe upholds Sheldon's legacy with a blistering story of revenge, passion, and betrayal in a book that is quintessential Sheldon.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Death by drowning, secret pasts, dirty politics, beautiful, ambitious women, and ice-cold killers distinguish Bagshawe's dynamic novel, commissioned by the late Sheldon's family and written in his style. As counselors at the tony Kennebunkport camp, privileged party-girl Toni Gilletti and her blue-color lover Billy Hamlin are present during a young camper's tragic drowning. Trumped-up charges lead to Billy's conviction for murder. Racked with guilt, Toni leaves home, reinventing and sanitizing her past. Years later in England, Alexia De Vere's surprise appointment as Home Secretary shakes up Parliament's old boys' club. As the second most powerful politician in England, Alexia must battle daily with myriad enemies: jealous colleagues, rowdy protesters, a mysterious stalker, a threat from her past, ruthless Russian oligarchs, and the unknown person who poisoned her dog. Rattled by escalating events aimed at derailing her career, yet bolstered by the support of her aristocratic husband, Teddy De Vere, and her best friend, Lucy Meyer, Alexia continues her work, even as she struggles with the tragic circumstances of her children, Roxie and Michael. Bagshawe (Mistress of the Game) keeps the action refreshingly unpredictable, revealing key connections and duplicity in delicious "aha!" moments. (Apr.)

Library Journal

Picked by the estate of blockbuster author Sheldon to continue his work, Bagshawe (Adored) turns out a tale of high society, high finance, and top government circles where the glitter hides the dirt. At its heart is the De Vere family, whose members glide gracefully among grand homes in London and Oxfordshire and on Martha's Vineyard but will soon see old family hatreds and the indiscretions of youth come damagingly to the fore. With a one-day laydown on April 9 and a 125,000-copy first printing.

Kirkus Reviews

The idle rich and the politically connected meet. The novel is a blend of romance and intrigue, with smatterings of from-the-headlines topicality: A middle-aged British woman who has risen to power in the government gets herself in hot water (and thus "couldn't look at water without feeling a shudder of foreboding"), while the mates of the (perhaps) falsely accused lad on whose shoulders she has risen and nearly fallen swear that she'll get hers. Meanwhile, across the waters, callous young men are enjoying lobster rolls while trolling on daddy's yacht and dreaming of "satin crotchless panties." Natch, these worlds have to meet. The writing is true to formula and makes a good simulacrum of Sheldon's well-known ham-fistedness: "Not only were Patel's supporters threatening and aggressive, but the tabloid press, and in particular the Daily Mail, wittered on about the man as if he were Ghandi." (Presumably, they're twittering on about him as if he were Gandhi, but no matter.) Worse: "She was so nervous, her teeth began to chatter." Worse yet: "Summer felt her tiredness lift and her misery of only a few hours ago evaporate like raindrops in the sun." Suitable for readers with middling hopes and low expectations but much inferior to other genre peers, Patterson included.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173610959
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

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