Taffy, the boy in the gate-house, spends his first years in a Cornish county town with a bedridden grandmother and an angel carved over his bed. Moved to a parish on the coast, he grows up among sands, church bells, cock-fights, a squire with a troubled soul and the girl Honoria, learning his way into manhood.
Quiller-Couch at his most heartfelt, for anyone who loves Cornwall. Download the free EPUB.