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Im very sorry we will have no more Jill Paton Walsh books, and I kind of wish she hadnt wasted her time writing Lord Peternot that those arent good, but I like her completely original stuff like this even more.
Shes very good at invoking lost worlds, An enjoyable read . reading it again. I bought this book years ago in England to read on a train and loved it immediately.
Just finished rereading it and still love it, The seaside atmosphere will appeal to almost every reader who lives or works by the ocean, but may not appeal to others who aren't stimulated by the slightest whiff of salt sea air.
It's a story of a sort of an everyday English family who discovered a long last past when their mother/grandmother Stella dies and they never knew she was a prominent artist in her youth.
That discovery sets the three, mother Marion, son Toby and daughter Alice on a journey back to St.
Ives in Cornwall to discover her artistic heritage and find out her possible involvement in a famous incident involving a failed rescue at sea a fictionalized account of an actual incident in St.
Ives inwhen the town's volunteer Lifeboat was lost during that rescue, That disaster still haunts the town years later the book is set in thes, One reason is that for a couple of years I volunteered for the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue until age and health reasons made me drop out, so I have some understanding of the importance of marine rescue volunteers.
Although Marian is the main character, the most fascinating character is actually the son Toby, who worked in finance and thought he wanted to get rich but actually finds his real self unexpectedly on that journey.
In fact, would love to read a sequel about how Toby has fared in the past two decades.
A light enjoyable story of a woman finally finding herself after the sudden death of her mother.
It is nicely written with well rounded characters and believable dialogue,
Most of all though I enjoyed the setting in Cornwall, England, I spent many childhood holidays there and mentions of Hayle, Slapton Sands and Gwithian amongst others brought back happy memories.
The author must have spent a lot of time there too because her descriptions of St Ives and its surrounds are spot on.

Read for a challenge but it was still a few hours well spent:
Interesting story based on a true event.
A very pleasing rainy weekendy kind of book,.stars.

Theres always a frisson of excitement when you come across a new book by an author you like.
Jill Paton Walshs Knowledge of Angels is one of my alltime favourite novels, as many of you will probably know, and so I was excited when J gave me this novel, which hed unearthed in a secondhand bookshop and which Id never heard of before.
Its very different in spirit a tale of quiet, private truths rather than the epic resonances of Knowledge of Angels but its nevertheless a moving tale of a woman trying to piece together her identity from the fragments left behind on her mothers death.
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sitelink nett O. K. , but The Serpentine Cave is a beautifully written story about a middle aged woman's search for her unknown father.
Set in Cornwall, this novel evokes the spirit of this special region of England, and is a lovely study of a woman's search for her self in the context of her own past and that of her homeland.
lovely book with good descriptions of Cornwall, a lot of what ifs and some slightly implausible scenarios Beautifully written, this is a literary sort of story, but not a heavy one.
Outwardly the narrative is about family, love and loss, but it is rich in Cornish history and culture in particular the influx of artists into the town of St.
Ives by the end of the's in tandem with the depletion of fish to be caught, and jobs to be had, and there are plenty of references to the arts, as well as the old traditions of the fishing life.
Evocative setting and skillful telling of a woman attempting to find the identity of her father after her mothers death.
Its a discovery of more than that, of course, When her mother dies, Marian Easton is confronted with the task of settling the affairs of a life she no longer knows for her mother, an unconventional artist, kept many secrets, foremost among them the identity of Marian's father.
Now all Marian has to console herself with is regret over their uneasy relationship, over everything she'll never know about herself.
Regret and her mother's paintings, the best of which are a series of landscapes set in St.
Ives, Cornwall. Marian's search for the truth takes her back to St, Ives, a village where artists and fisherman have coexisted for decades, and where Marian and her mother lived for just a few years when Marian was young.
Digging into the past, Marian discovers that her mother's art and her own identity are irrevocably tied into St.
Ives' biggest tragedy, a lifeboat disaster of, The Serpentine Cave is an imagined story containing a true one: a powerful, lovingly crafted novel of memory and loss, birth and rebirth, and past regrets that still have power over the present.
Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on Aprilth,, She was educated at St, Michaels Convent, North Finchley, and at St, Annes College, Oxford. Fromtoshe taught English at Enfield Girls Grammar School, Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award,, for Fireweed the Whitbread Prize,for a Childrens novel for The Emperors Winding Sheet The Boston Globe Horn Book Awardfor Unleaving The Universe Prize,for A Parcel of Patterns and the Smarties Grand Prix,, for Gaffer Samsons Luck.
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She was educated at St, Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St, Anne's College, Oxford. Fromtoshe taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School, Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award,, for Fireweed the Whitbread Prize,for a Children's novel for The Emperor's Winding Sheet The Boston Globe Horn Book Awardfor Unleaving The Universe Prize,for A Parcel of Patterns and the Smarties Grand Prix,, for Gaffer Samson's Luck.
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