What the Tide Leaves

By Jack Marlowe

Clara Hartley has spent thirty-five years learning to live in a world that never quite fit. When her mother dies and her ADHD diagnosis arrives five days later, she finds herself unmoored in the harbour town she grew up in - unsure where grief ends and her own mind begins.

Noah Reed doesn't say much. He doesn't need to. In a life full of noise, his steadiness feels like something Clara doesn't have a word for yet.

What the Tide Leaves is a story about the love that doesn't arrive with grand gestures or easy answers - the kind that simply shows up, stays, and makes space. About learning to trust yourself when you've spent a lifetime doubting your own mind. And about what the sea leaves behind when the tide finally goes out.

A tender, quietly powerful novel about grief, late diagnosis, and the relationships that meet us exactly where we are - and don't ask us to be anything else.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW2MP2RQ
• ISBN13: 9798254846154
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"