Books like Children of the Tide by Val Wood

A love story set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, where Anne Elliot finds herself amidst the Regency era as her sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, leading to an unexpected reunion with Captain Frederick Wentworth and the return of her beloved.

Samuel Butler’s 1903 novel, The Way of All Flesh, sharply critiques Victorian domestic life through a sardonic portrayal of a Christian family across generations.

Mario Puzo traces the rise of the Borgia family, revealing the intertwined forces of ambition, faith, and power that shaped one of Italy’s most notorious dynasties.

James Salter's 'All that is' is a captivating and sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition. A deeply intimate portrait of the emotional and physical experiences of being alive. Set during the golden decades following World War II, the book captures Salter's lifelong obsession with capturing the intimate, ephemeral spaces that all of us hold and leave behind on paper. After serving as a young officer in Okinawa during the war, Philip Bowman returns home to a small publishing house in New York. The frenetic social scene of New York in the post-war era is a backdrop for the story, where Bowman feels at home. However, his enduring love seems to elude him. When he meets a woman who captivates him, Bowman embarks on a journey that he never intended to take. The book is celebrated for its lyrical evocation of a post-war world imaginatively rendered and beautifully written.

"The Great Tide tells the story of a boomtown Gulf port, of plantation life on Florida's fabulous West Coast in the 1830s and '40s, and of a tempestuous, unforgettable woman, Miss Carolina Cohran. More vivid than life at the thriving city of St. Joseph, stronger than any among its dramatic characters, is Caline herself. Great lady in a setting of political intrigue, duels and brawls--schemer for possessions and luxury--victim of her restless emotions, Caline dominates the lives of three men: powerful, wealthy Douglass Blackwell, whom she married without loving; reckless, irresistible Studd Sevens, whom she loved without marrying; and handsome Anderson McQuaggue, who loved her, resented her, and loved her more deeply for that resentment. The Great Tide sweeps across ten adventurous, tragic years of Caline's life in the exciting, flamboyant, doomed city of St. Joseph, and later at the magnolia-scented Greenwood plantation. This first novel--huge, rich, vividly alive--tells Caline's story form her own point of view. It is as colorful and spirited as she was herself, and every page recreates, authentically, the Florida Gulf Coast and pioneer plantation life of a century ago."

359 pages ; 25 cm

A contemporary Scottish writer uncovers a secret from 1708 involving a Jacobite invasion and a long‑lost tragedy, as a haunting ancestral memory threatens to unleash the buried truth for all to see.