woman comes to believe that the barren city she inhabits is actually the underworld. Occupying
the liminal spaces between reality, illusion, memory and mania, Olana recounts an allegorical
journey from profound disorientation to absolute clarity. Told in 265 short, titled passages
gathered into four parts, Lindsay Hill’s second novel offers the reader a challenging, provocative
and rewarding narrative experience.
“Tidal Lock is a tour de force — a gorgeous, devastating story about a lost, absent father and a
neglected daughter. Brilliant and heartbreaking, it is the best, most inventive novel I’ve read in
ages.” —Margaret McMullan, author of Aftermath and Where the Angels Lived
"Tidal Lock is so richly metaphorical that I could not divorce its deft magic from my own
memories and circumstances. Like Kazuo Ishiguro's Unconsoled or J. Robert Lennon's Pieces
for the Left Hand, this is a literary marvel at once unsettling and familiar, elusive and intentional.
I absolutely love this book." —Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra