Nobody knows why Teddy Pegram settles in Little Silver, but the handy little man soon fixes up a tumbledown cottage and earns the name Santa Claus. Around him Phillpotts gathers a whole village of Devon country folk: a returned native, an old soldier who does for himself, John and Jane, a ferryman called Fox and the secrets of the Hound’s Pool, told in the voice of the place.
Warm, shrewd rural tales from the Dartmoor novelist, for readers who like Hardy’s country with more humour. Download the free EPUB.