Morwell, where steamers on the Tamar give way to barges and a duke’s zigzag road climbs to the moor above Tavistock, is the setting for this novel of the Devon borderland. Jasper, a man of quiet self-denial who has spent his life shielding a younger brother and placating a hard father, finds that a woman’s passion can turn to hatred as easily as love.
Baring-Gould knew this country of rivers, woods and moorland intimately, and his West Country novels repay readers who love a strong sense of place. Download the free EPUB.