Join us for an evening with authors Liz Fenwick, Susanna Kearsley and Linda Wilgus in conversation to chat about their latest Cornish-set novels and about the world of contemporary Cornish writing.
Wednesday 22nd April
6:30pm
Above the Bookshop
Flora’s Day by Liz Fenwick
Flo Richards is done with Cornwall and in particular, with her home town, Helston. More importantly she is finished with Flora Day, Helston’s version of a May Day celebration. This was a day that was once better than Christmas and not to be missed for any reason. But that all changed sixteen years ago.
Now she’s built a successful life in LA, and her return to Helston is for one purpose only: to sell the grand house she inherited from her godfather and cut her last tie to the past. But her plan is derailed when she’s forced to lead the town’s traditional Flora Day dance with Ke Dale—her first love. As the festival pulls them back into their old rhythm, a letter from Flora’s late mother unearths a life-altering secret about her own identity.
Now all Flo has to do is survive one last Flora Day. With that done she will be free of the past. But can one day full of old traditions mend her broken heart and change her mind?
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
When Eva’s filmstar sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Trelowarth, Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina’s ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own.
The house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived – and died – long before she herself was born.
Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.
The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus
The Cornish coast. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages.
Isabel has always been a woman of mystery. As a child of four, she appeared on the Cornish shore, soaking wet, unable to speak. The villagers believed she was brought from the sea, the daughter of a spirit. Now, newly widowed, Isabel feels the ocean calling her to come back home.
And when Jack Carlyon, an injured smuggler, crosses her path, she is swept up into a love story that will test her courage, her reputation, and her heart. Jack plays a dangerous game, and there are those that would hang him if they knew what he was. Isabel fights to make sense of the magical pull of the ocean and wants to protect Jack – but at what cost?She is a daughter of the sea.
He is a man of the land. Can they overcome the odds to be together?