Time and Tide (novel)

Time and Tide is a 1992 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, published by Viking in the UK and by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in the US.

[1] The New York Times described the plot as "disturbing", and focus heavily on the mourning created by Nell's misfortune.

The New York Times Review of Books did not clearly create a verdict about the novel, focusing on how its disturbing and continues many of the themes and topics found in O'Brien's other work.

[2] The LA Times had more praise, writing that the novel profiles how "O'Brien's melodious, fluent prose is one of the sweetest pleasures of contemporary fiction.

"[3] And though describing the novel as one that requires readers to "occasionally wants to call timeout", generally Robert Roper appreciates the novel's characterization of a woman who "invites her own destruction, even welcomes it.