The Tide Between Us
The O'Neill Trilogy, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jack Nolan
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By:
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Olive Collins
About this listen
1821: Among the thousands of Irish deportees to the Caribbean British Colonies is a 10-year-old Irish boy, Art O’Neill. As an indentured servant on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, Art gradually acclimatizes to the exotic country and the unfamiliar customs of the African slaves.
When the new heirs to the plantation arrive from Ireland, they resurrect the ghosts of brutal injustices against Art. He bides his time and hides his abhorrence from his new master by channeling his energy into his work. During those years, he prospers, acquires land, sees his colored children freed after emancipation as he takes us on a multi-generational historical saga.
Eventually, Art is promised seven gold coins for seven decades of service. He doubts his master will part with the coins. The morning Art sets out to claim his gratuity, he ignores his sense of foreboding that he may not return home alive.
Ireland, 1991: One hundred years later, a skeleton is discovered beneath a fallen tree on the grounds of Lugdale Estate. By its side is a gold coin minted in 1870. Yseult, the owner of the estate, watches as events unfold, fearful of the long-buried truths that may emerge about her family’s past and its links to the slave trade. As the skeleton gives up its secrets, Yseult realizes she too can no longer hide.
Inspired by the real story of 2,000 Irish children deported to Jamaica and the statistics that 25 percent of Jamaican citizens claim Irish ancestry. The Tide Between Us is a powerful novel documenting true historical events and the resilience of the human spirit.
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- J J Gordon - Adams
- 07-09-22
Story good, production not
The narration of this story was awfully clunky with strange pauses and poor emphasis. Accents waxed and waned even for the chapter headings! There was also some very off music at the end/beginning of chapters. A shame.
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- Mrs N
- 22-10-21
Good story
An interesting and engaging story, but I felt the narration spoilt it. It was very halting with pauses in the wrong places and the emphasis sometimes placed on the wrong word. I was also reading the book in Kindle Unlimited and without this I wouldn’t have completed the story.
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- S. S.
- 20-10-21
Worth Reading
I received this in paperback form initially, but decided to go with audible so I could carry on with my day.
I found the narration delivery was very poor, and could have given up after the first chapter. He was not putting the correct emphasis on the sentence, mispronouncing place names, substituting words with the wrong word, eg saying dining table instead of dressing table, all these things I found distracting my attention away from the story.
Usually I can go through a book of this size in two days, but this took me over a week, I had to keep turning it off. I was determined to finish it, which I did, but I would definitely recommended reading it.
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- Anne Fedigan
- 20-07-23
Good Story, Bad Narator
I hadn’t known about Irish children sold into slavery. A good story but the accents and pronunciation was terrible. Why couldn’t they get an Irish man/woman to narate? It doesn’t make any sense!
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- Michelle McAuliffe
- 19-07-23
A good story
I really enjoyed the story. The narrator was nt great with the accents.! Especially the Irish and English accents.
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- Miss Chalklit
- 27-02-22
Enjoyed the story
It had a slow start, but I am glad that I persisted with the story and I enjoyed listening to it. What would have interesting to find out is what happened to Yseult's daughter Rachel after what she had plotted with her fiance.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-07-22
Excellent
Very interesting story about a lesser known period of history . Couldn't stop listening
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-05-23
Mount Gaye rum is from Barbados not Jamaica
unfortunately I could not finish reading this book as the narration was terrible, worst accents I have ever heard. Also when hearing mount gaye rum being referenced to being of Jamacian origin that was the last straw!
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- Jo
- 05-09-23
Glad it’s not just me….
I loved the book, but unfortunately the narration really lets it down, the accents are wrong, you can hear the narrator swallowing and taking breaths and there are pauses in the wrong places. I can only assume it wasn’t reviewed before being launched, if you can get past this its a great story!!!
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- Bam
- 05-11-23
Great saga! Listens like an old radio production.
Problematic accents, nose whistling, whispers in the background, gulping, page turning, mouse clicking, poor grammar, I’m sure there’s even a cat meowing at some point.
With that being said at least the narrator gives it some welly!
Can’t wait to listen to the next book!
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