Hydra in Shadows - Nicola Thorpe

Hydra in Shadows - Nicola Thorpe

Nicola Thorpe

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  • Pages · 368 pages
  • Publication Date · 15/09/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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`Hydra in Shadows' is a story of life, set on the coastallandscape of the Ards Peninsula. A story of a woman and a man and theinevitable in between. A story, perhaps, familiar to some, as we all feel ittoo, don't we? That pull of the primal spirit which drags us away fromourselves. At some point, between the banality and the tedium of our everydayworlds. �And yet the tide beats on. �It focuses on the central female antagonist- andher life. It revolves around her foray into the restaurant world - she opens abeautiful glass restaurant right on the shore side - her house faces the watertoo. �

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