It is 1880 in Cornwall. Pearl, Nicholas, and Jack play among the fishing boats of Skommow Bay, not understanding the undercurrents beneath their games. Nine years later, Nicholas, keen for the fishing industry and society as a whole to progress, makes a decision that will affect all of their lives forever. Told from the point of a view of an aging Pearl, succumbing to dementia in 1936, this moving novel jumps back and forth through time as Pearl's own memory does and explores topics such as the tension between individual will and the pressure to conform to societal norms, love and tragedy, and the ripple effects of a dying industry. The story is set against the scenic backdrop of Cornwall as well as the late-19th-century riots over the observance of the Sabbath in the fishing industry, and serves as a tremendously accurate snapshot of a particular moment in time and a meditation on the universal themes of love and loss.
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- Contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- 'Linked'
- PART ONE – Chapter One
- PART ONE – Chapter Two
- PART ONE – Chapter Three
- PART ONE – Chapter Four
- PART ONE – Chapter Five
- PART TWO – 1880 and 1936
- PART TWO – Chapter One
- PART TWO – Chapter Two
- PART TWO – Chapter Three
- PART TWO – Chapter Four
- PART TWO – Chapter Five
- PART TWO – Chapter Six
- PART TWO – Chapter Seven
- PART TWO – Chapter Eight
- PART TWO – Chapter Nine
- PART TWO – Chapter Ten
- PART TWO – Chapter Eleven
- PART TWO – Chapter Twelve
- PART TWO – Chapter Thirteen
- PART TWO – Chapter Fourteen
- PART TWO – Chapter Fifteen
- PART TWO – Chapter Sixteen
- PART TWO – Chapter Seventeen
- PART TWO – Chapter Eighteen
- PART THREE – 1936 and 1889
- PART THREE – Chapter One
- PART THREE – Chapter Two
- PART THREE – Chapter Three
- PART THREE – Chapter Four
- PART THREE - Chapter Five
- PART THREE – Chapter Six
- PART THREE – Chapter Seven
- PART THREE – Chapter Eight
- PART THREE – Chapter Nine
- PART THREE – Chapter Ten
- PART THREE – Chapter Eleven
- PART THREE – Chapter Twelve
- PART THREE – Chapter Thirteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Fourteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Fifteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Sixteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Seventeen
- PART THREE – Chapter Eighteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Nineteen
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty-One
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty-Two
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty-Three
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty-Four
- PART THREE – Chapter Twenty-Five
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
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