Why this lender recommends it

"It’s too bad Frances Fyfield books are no longer published in the US. I’m a very big fan, and this is the book I like best. Sarah Fortune is a delightful unpredictable character, with a past history of abuse and a big enough heart to forgive and give compassion to the worst of the worst. Fyfield provides a nice alternative to the good guy-bad guy dynamic. She turns it around so the bad guys find redemption through the quirky ministrations of Sarah (or, in her other books, a similar main character,) a flawed but almost Christ-like figure. Fyfield’s plots are meandering and tangential, and she does a lot of analyzing of her characters, two no-nos in the writing schools. But I love it." - Reviewer on Goodreads.com

About this book

Sarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot bear to be a captive. But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the seaside town where they live in Norfolk - all a legacy of a suicide of two years before, when a beautiful woman walked into the sea and never came back. And there is another element of the legacy, a white-haired figure some call a ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and harmlessly haunts the until he insinuates himself into the power struggles of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of all concerned.

Condition notes

Perfect