The Granite Cliffs
  • Published:
    Feb-2003 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    Romance
  • Pages:
    224
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Love, life and loss in Edwardian England

Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her honourable and well-meaning father, though disillusioned by the impossibility of his spiritual task, thinks he has found a suitable companion for her when he introduces a gentle, musical young curate into the parish. Indeed a friendship blossoms, as Victoria finds a fellow-sufferer in his rather gauche and awkward ways. All this is to change, however, when a accident at the granite-pit brings Victoria into close contact with stone-worker Daniel Olds, whose rugged muscularity she has already secretly admired, and finds the admiration mutual. However, there is no possibility of a match. Convention and society are against them, and Dan is already promised to local girl, Mollie Coombs, who is not likely to give up her beau without a struggle. The Curate, too, shows a determined side, though he proves to have a secret of his own.

Set at a time when Edwardian convention was absolute and when the Penwith mining industry was in crisis and decline, this book offers a lively glimpse at the social and economic realities of love, life and loss in early twentieth-century Cornwall.
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    • First Edition
    • Feb-2003
    • Severn House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0727858548
    • ISBN13: 9780727858542
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    • Jul-2003
    • Severn House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0727873008
    • ISBN13: 9780727873002
    • Large Print



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