The Water Child

The Water Child

By Mathew West

Genre:-Historical/Horror

Pages:-304

Publisher:-HarperNorth

Blurb:-What the sea takes for its own can never return......

 Portugal, 1754. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain's wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband's ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost.

 Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked shoreline, and amid the bustle of the docks she feel certain that her husband will come back to her. Though along with that feeling is another sense-that something darker is coming. As she sickens, she doesn't know what the next tide will bring-but she begins to fear as well as crave her husband's homecoming.

 Soon, even on dry land, Cecilia can feel the pull of the ocean at her feet, the movement of the tides within her. Warning, seduction or promise, she cannot tell, but one thing is certain-the sea holds many secrets, and some of them are too powerful to ever be drowned.

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My Review:-Cecilia Lamb was eighteen-years-old when she married, and three days later she moved to Portugal, leaving her three brothers and sister behind. Portugal, 1754.  John Harding who's dream of being a sea captain, of one of the tall ships one day, finally comes true. John goes on his first voyage leaving behind his young wife, Cecilia. Cecilia looked out at the water, being at the top of the hill, Cecilia could see the same view through any of the five windows. Cecilia is lonely and worried that her husband, John might not want to come back home to her. John has been gone longer than he should of been and nothing had been heard. People presumed John must be dead, but Cecilia knows different, Everyday Cecilia would walk down the hill to the water and look out at sea, just looking for a sign. She has a feeling and visions  that he will come home one day, but when? Something dark is drawing Cecilia to the sea, but what, all she knows is it's nothing good. I love the description that the author has used throughout the book, I feel you get to know more about where you are.