The ebbs and flows of an affair are tracked in this intense exploration of the price people pay for love. Dymott's fans include Rachel Cusk and Ben Lerner 'When two people meet is it need, fantasy or love? She meets Robert - exuberant, generous, apparently care-free - and they fall in love with breath-taking speed. Slack-tide tracks the ebbs and flows of the affair: passionate, coercive, intensely sexual.