Year Of Marvellous WaysMarvellous Ways is eighty nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken

uplifting book

close to magic

heartwarming' Zara Stoneley

revealing how everything from price point to percentage impacts what ends up in your glass

representing these factions

secure in the knowledge that a skilful storyteller will guide us safely to the end of the tale

The islands are home to a small close-knit society of 50

face a sea of troubles

tidying it up and getting it ready to sell

a perfect metaphor for the Dons' own rise from the ashes of a failed jewellery design business in London

a vanished lake which left its own interesting legacy

Cooked food meant our heads shrunk