Wind Over Tide

It is 1945 and World War II is just over. The port city of Kingston Upon Hull has been heavily bombed. Within Hull lies the deep-sea trawling community of Hessle Road where many families are being reunited after years of service and evacuation. No one has escaped the bloody mark of war. As her own family comes together, widowed Muriel Goodwell makes a last heroic effort to free her three eldest children from the haunting tragedies of the past. Her son, Mac, handsome and broody, has just returned to his job as First Mate on the trawler, Ichthus. Mac is plagued with guilt and anger over the loss of his father at sea, emotions he attempts to assuage by playing saviour to Dolores Alford, an old love trapped hopelessly in an abusive marriage to a drunk. Prudence, who dutifully remained by her mother's side to take care of her younger siblings and her sister’s illegitimate baby, Ted, is pitied for the loss of her fiancé at the beginning of the war. However, she has not revealed that she broke off the engagement by letter shortly before he was killed. Feeling trapped by circumstance and obligation, Prudence strongly resents her younger sister, the seemingly carefree Vivian, who returns from London a war bride. Vivian is planning only a brief visit to Hull to introduce her husband, Jake, and say her goodbyes before sailing on the Queen Mary to America - but without her son, Ted. Yet, things are not quite what they seem, and soon circumstances force the newlyweds to remain in Hull indefinitely. As the story unfolds, Mac, Prudence and Vivian learn that the greatest battle is within themselves. They each struggle to forgive and find forgiveness as they rebuild their lives in the aftermath of war.