FAMILY ON THE TIDE

by Capt. Frank Knight ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 11, 1956

A British teen age novel which exhibits more emotional maturity than its average American counterpart describes the first few months spent by the Colliss family (Mr. Colliss is a novelist) on a moored yacht in a shore town near London. Their children are Maureen, 14 and the heroine of the story, and Brian and Michael, her two younger brothers. Mr. Dunn, the local caretaker of the yacht, and his family become their close acquaintances. At first it is due to Dunn's background in the Navy which he had in common with Mr. Colliss; but soon the problem of his son, Ted, becomes paramount. A boy with artistic inclinations, Ted has been forced into science by a well- intentioned mother to the point where he rebels enough to earn a bad reputation at school. But with the help of Maureen and her father, Ted's life is straightened out with a scholarship to a London art school. Parent-child conversations are weighted with good measure of sense and sensibility here.

Pub Date: June 11, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION