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Cornwall books?

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Jouley · 12/01/2019 13:17

Hi
I've decided to try the 50 books in 2019 and I'm planning ahead. I'm going to Cornwall for the first time ever this summer and I'd love to read some atmospheric books to get a bit of a sense of place, etc. Please send me some recommendations!
I'm not into thrillers, I loved Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home and The Shell Seekers.
Thank you

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Panicmode1 · 12/01/2019 15:35

The Salt Path is an amazing book - it's not set totally in Cornwall and is non fiction, but is one of the most powerful books I read last year.

BikeRunSki · 12/01/2019 15:34

Rebecca, and a lot of other Daphne du Maurier

Parthenope · 12/01/2019 15:33

Helen Dunmore’s Zennor In Darkness, set during WWI, and about a young female artist, her relationship with her cousin home from the trenches, and DH and Frieda Lawrence.

Two by Patrick Gale — The Cat Sanctuary. Two estranged sisters brought back together by the girlfriend of one of them, at their Cornwall farmhouse. Also, probably my favourite of his, Notes from an Exhibition, about the family of a female artist with a mysterious past, all set in and around Penzance at St Ives, and told from the perspectives of all the family members.

yesbutnobut · 12/01/2019 15:29

Patrick Gale lives in Cornwall and has set at least one novel there

Dottierichardson · 12/01/2019 15:25

You might like Emma Smith's memoirs of growing up in Cornwall -

The Great Western Beach: a memoir of growing up in Cornwall between the wars

As Green as Grass

A wonderful non-fiction book is artist Ithell Colquhoun's The Living Stones: Cornwall

Also this Goodreads' list night give you some ideas:
www.goodreads.com/list/show/18130.Best_Books_Set_in_Cornwall

purpleme12 · 12/01/2019 14:57

The Holiday Home by Fern Britton is set in Cornwall

SatsukiKusakabe · 12/01/2019 14:48

The Camomile Lawn.
Rebecca
The Poldark Novels

Mesmeri · 12/01/2019 14:29

Goldengrove, and it's sequel, Unleaving - by Jill Paton Walsh.

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