Set among the farms, tors and chapels of Dartmoor around Ruddyford, the novel follows Brendon, a man first seen on a moorland cairn, and the farming families whose loves and grudges flare around him. Rows at the village committee, a hermit’s hut, chapel-going and the slow progress of new ideas sit beside a love affair that comes on with the force of a storm.
One of Phillpotts’s Dartmoor cycle, for readers who like their rural fiction rich in landscape and dialect. Download the free EPUB.