The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish SeaAn immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun. Roddy Doyle Remarkable. Lively Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular. Times Literary Supplement The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature writing, travelogue and politics, Welshman Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints;