Zennor in Darkness

Sue says about Zennor in Darkness: "I love Helen Dunmore’s books and this is one of her best. Set in Cornwall during the First World War, this is another novel written around fact that I loved. I went on to read all her other novels and her poetry as a result of reading this one."

They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn't begin to understand.

But as the heat picks up, so too do the fear and the gossip that haunt the village. And the freedom to love will come at a steep price.

Author: Dunmore, Helen

Cornwall

Published on 3 June 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 320 pages, no pictures
130 x 196 x 25 | 228g