From the acclaimed author of Three Fevers, Love in the Sun and Angler's Moon, here Leo Walmsley returns to his childhood in Bramblewick at the turn of the 20th century. With tender nostalgia he has recreated the village community with its fishermen battling to scratch a meagre living from the sea, the old sea captains, the coastguards, the village children, the elderly proud, autocratic vicar, and his own father – an artist struggling to feed his family.

Through Leo Walmsley's story we can live amongst the red-roofed cottages, the narrow winding alleyways, the fishing cobles, the shipwrecks and the launching of the lifeboat. We can almost hear the sound of the sea...

This is a time portal, a window into life at Robin Hood's Bay over 100 years ago.

'...every word ... carries a ring of truth and indeed the very sound of the sea.' Times Educational Supplement

'...his stories reflect so much that is real.' Trade News

'This one casts a happy spell.' London Evening News