Trying to remember name of a novel

[onedayatatime73]

I can't remember the title, author or plot! But it stuck with me. Think I read it about 20 years ago. Fiction novel. With lots of references to seahorses. Ring any bells anyone?

And another one. Where there was a girl called whale or blubber or something. (Not Judy Blume). Sorry. Being tortured by book memories that I can't remember names of.

Are these children's books or adult novels. What genre? Set in the present day or historic? Can you give us the details of the part of the novels that stuck with you?

The Water Babies?

I've remembered one of them - She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

The other one - novel, contemporary, main protagonist is a woman who has something to do with seahorses. (She's studying them? Or writing about them?). And I think she has a daughter. I can't remember anything else other than I loved it and the seahorses stuck with me!

is it this? Sea Horses Kindle Edition
by Louise Coop

No. But thank you for trying.

I am pretty sure I’ve read the seahorses one in the early to mid 2000s. It was the story of a relationship and the women was an academic researching seahorses I think? I thought it was The Republic of Love by Carol Shields but on checking the back cover the character in that is a folklorist researching mermaids!

Yes. That's right. She was an academic. I'm trying to search for it but can't remember anything else about it.

She’s come undone is in my top two of all time. Absolutely outstanding. I’ve bought multiple copies because I insist on passing it on, then want to re-read.

It’s going to bug me now too! I’ve checked plot summaries for various authors, Anita Shreve, Sue Miller etc but no luck so far. I did wonder about The Last Time They Met as I’ve definitely read that, but can remember little about it.

Yes it was exactly around the time I was reading Shreve, Atkinson, Stone for the first time. It's going to haunt me until o can remember.

Could it be The Seahorse by Tania Unsworth?

Solved the mystery (I think).

Pretty sure it is “Watch Me Disappear” by Jill Dawson, but I either borrowed it from the library or donated my copy to charity as I don’t have it to double check.

Here’s an Amazon review with a plot summary:

Tina is a scientist studying seahorses, living in America, married with a child. She returns to Britain for her brother's wedding and while she is there she has flashbacks to the summer when she was ten and her best friend Mandy disappeared. A chance remark by her brother leads her to confront her past and reach some extremely uncomfortable conclusions.

This is a very readable novel with a clever theme about seahorses running through it. This alludes to the nature of memory and where it is stored (the hippocampus)which in turn relates to the Latin name for a seahorse

Yes. Woo hoo. Thank you so much. It's been driving me nuts! Really appreciate your help.