Polrudden: Number 2 in series (Jagos of Cornwall)

Polrudden: Number 2 in series (Jagos of Cornwall)

by E. V. Thompson (Author)

Synopsis

On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profoundly affect his destiny. Despite hard times, Nathan and his wife Amy adopt Jean-Paul and bring him up with their own son. Nathan considers a return to the ring in the struggle to make a living and keep the ancient house in the family. But events conspire to involve him in a royalist intrigue that eventually leads to Paris - where a beautiful marquise and a dashing count sow the seeds both of tragedy and renewed hope...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 04 Nov 2004

ISBN 10: 0751534498
ISBN 13: 9780751534498

Media Reviews
'Evokes the spirit of Cornwall in the early nineteenth century' - OXFORD TIMES
Author Bio
E V Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy before joining the Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become a full-time writer. In 1977 Chase the Wind won the Best Historical Novelist Award.