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The Visitor
The Visitor

The Visitor

FICTION

345 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Mobipocket, EPUB, Cloth

Cloth, $16.00 (US $16.00) (CA $19.95)

Publication Date: March 2014

ISBN 9781909844087

Rights: US, CA, SAM & CAR

Parthian Books Ltd. (Mar 2014)
Parthian Books

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Overview

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.

Reviews

"Katherine Stansfield's debut is a poignant and intricately crafted story of love and loss, picturesquely and memorably set on the sea-coast of Cornwall'.  —Stevie Davies, author, Awakening 

"An evocative record of a lost age . . . unmistakably heartfelt."  —Daily Mail

Author Biography

Katherine Stansfield is a lecturer in creative writing at Aberystwyth University in Wales and an associate member of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Exeter University. Her poetry has appeared in Cheval, the anthology of commended entries to the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award.