Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe, born in turn of the 20th century Cornwall, she longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family.
Janet's loving spirit - the passionate yearning for adventure and for love - is passed down to her son, and through him to his children's children. As generations of the family struggle against hardship and loss, their intricately plotted history is set against the greater backdrop of war and social change in Britain.
Praise for Daphne du Maurier: "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." - Sunday Telegraph
"[du Maurier] tells a story because it's a good story, because it has something of beauty in it, and therefore of truth. She pictures life itself rather than all the dark and torturous currents that twist below its surface... Miss du Maurier's book is a grand one."--Chicago Tribune
- ISBN10 1306759293
- ISBN13 9781306759298
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published December 1958)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little Brown and Company
- Format eBook
- Language English