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Wrecker (Hardcover)
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Wrecker (Hardcover)
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List price R480
Loot Price R410
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`Compelling' Sunday Times A powerful debut exploring the dark side
of Cornwall - the wrecking and the drowned sailors - where poverty
drove villagers to dark deeds... Shipwrecks are part of life in the
remote village of Porthmorvoren, Cornwall. And as the sea washes
the bodies of the drowned onto the beach, it also brings treasures:
barrels of liquor, exotic fruit, the chance to lift a fine pair of
boots from a corpse, maybe even a jewel or two. When, after a
fierce storm, Mary Blight rescues a man half-dead from the sea, she
ignores the whispers of her neighbours and carries him home to
nurse better. Gideon Stone is a Methodist minister from Newlyn, a
married man. Touched by Mary's sacrifice and horrified by the
superstitions and pagan beliefs the villagers cling to, Gideon sets
out to bring light and salvation to Porthmorvoren by building a
chapel on the hill. But the village has many secrets and not
everyone wants to be saved. As Mary and Gideon find themselves
increasingly drawn together, jealousy, rumour and suspicion is
rife. Gideon has demons of his own to face, and soon Mary's enemies
are plotting against her... Gripping, beautifully written and
utterly beguiling, Noel O'Reilly's debut WRECKER is a story of
love, injustice, superstition and salvation, set against Cornwall's
dark past.
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