‘Where Light Meets Water’ is a big historical read. Susan Paterson has written about a sailor and the sea and the artistic talent that he shares with the woman who fights for him even though her own artistic abilities are overlooked in a time when class and gender were paramount.   The complex and transformative nature of desire is seen evolving with all its passion, jealousies and insecurities in Madelaine Lucas’ novel, ‘Thirst for Salt’, where a young woman falls for an older man.