The Highest Tide

Its arms were as big around as my ankles and lined with suckers the size of half dollars… It was too late to smother my scream. Its eye was the size of a hubcap.

When thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley discovers a rare sea creature one night, he unwittingly becomes a local celebrity and is hounded by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. But Miles is just a kid on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and struggling to keep his world intact.

This edition of the novel includes a map, an interview with the author and other extra features.

"This novel is so very special. If you reach the last page without having laughed out loud, felt tears well up or at least once sit back in wonder at the extraordinary descriptions of the sea and its creatures, then you may, quite simple, be inhuman." - Independent on Sunday.

Jim Lynchhas won national journalism awards and published short fiction in literacy magazines. A Washington state native, Lynch currently writes and sails from his home in Olympia, where he lives with his wife and daughter. The Highest Tide is his first novel.

The Highest Tide
Allen and Unwin
Author: Jim Lynch
ISBN: 9780747595090
RRP: $17.95