The follow on from the first part of her autobigraphy (Fortune Grass) which was set in WW1 and immediatly after. This gives an account of her working in a munitions factory in Hayes Middlesex where she lost a leg in an explosion at age 17.

Against the Tide is the middle part of her autobiography covering the inter war years roughly 1920s and 1930s. A period in which she has a disasterous marraige.

Followed by "Homeward Bound" part three, her expriences of WW2 and the post war years when she finally settles in St Ives in Cornwall