Island Ebb & Flow is a lively, honest account about pioneering on an island. For nearly 40 years, the author and her family homesteaded on Waldron Island, an island of approximately five square miles, in the San Juan Island chain of Washington State. Out of this experience comes a sense of the island s spirit the challenges, beauty, pain and pride involved in island living. Frances Lovering and the other intrepid inhabitants of their small community thrived on the fresh air and hard work. Their stories will thrill the hearts and tantalize the imagination of everyone who reads this stirring and evocative account.