Discussion Questions for The Sea Between Two Shores by Tanis Rideout 1. In her author’s note, Tanis Rideout talks about the first sparks of this novel igniting while she was visiting the island of Tanna in archipelago of Vanuatu. She describes dismissing the idea, initially, but gradually finding her way into the story. What do you imagine were some of the specific challenges Rideout, as a white settler in Canada, might have come up against in telling this story? 2. The novel