LIZ FENWICK was born in Massachusetts and after ten international moves she’s back in the United Kingdom with her husband and two mad cats. She made her first trip to Cornwall in 1989 and bought her home there seven years later. She’s a bit of a global nomad but her heart forever remains in Cornwall. For more information visit lizfenwick.com. Or find her procrastinating on Twitter @liz_fenwick
The Cornish House
A Cornish Affair
A Cornish Stranger
Under a Cornish Sky
A Cornish Christmas Carol
The Returning Tide
One Cornish Summer
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019
Copyright © Liz Fenwick 2019
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Ebook Edition © June 2019 ISBN: 9780008290511
‘The queen of the contemporary Cornish novel’
The Guardian
‘Full of warmth, wisdom and compassion . . . Liz Fenwick’s writing is vivid, satisfying and descriptive’
Daily Express
‘Engrossing and romantic – a perfect holiday read’
Rachel Hore
‘Wonderfully intriguing and compelling . . . Together with Liz’s usual beautiful evocation of the Cornish scenery this was a brilliant read’
Barbara Erskine
‘Authentic and compelling . . . I loved it’
Rosanna Ley
‘As heartbreaking as it is absorbing . . . I read it in one day’
Kate Riordan
‘Intriguing, deeply felt and poignant’
Elizabeth Buchan
For the friend who has travelled the journey of my life, filling it with laughter, sharing the tears and the secrets, saving the memories and being an anchor when the waves of grief threatened to set me adrift.
Although we have chosen different paths, you remind me of the starting point and how far we have travelled. Great friendship doesn’t require proximity, just great love.
Thank you Christine.
Two roads diverge in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken’
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