Low Tide: A quiet interactive diary novel of one autumn on the English coast

The visitors have gone. September, low water, and the harbour breathing up through the floorboards of a hardware shop that has been in the family longer than you have.There is an envelope under the till drawer with a crest you know without reading. There is a chair on the workbench you keep meaning to finish. There is a brother with a van and a date in mind, and a father who leaves the good coffee out and never stays to lock up.Nothing here will force your hand. That is the trouble.Low Tide is an interactive novel told as a diary. You live twenty-eight days of one woman's life, one dated entry at a time, and at the foot of almost every entry you choose what she does next - to speak or to let it go, to spend or to keep, to stay or to go. Follow the instruction to the page it names, and read on.The choices are small and ordinary. None of them is dramatic. But they change the day that follows, and they add up: there is no score and nothing to keep track of, and the pattern of your days decides which of three endings you reach.Read one entry a day, the way a diary is meant to be read. Then read again, lean the other way, and live a different life.Book One of The Other Diary - a series of quiet, interactive novels about ordinary lives and the small choices that shape them.