by Jill Paton Walsh · Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385409193
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«The Serpentine Cave» is the contemporary novel by Jill Paton Walsh, published by Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd in paperback (224 pages, in English).
After her mother's death, Marian sets out to find the father she never knew and travels to the Cornish coast. In St. Ives she discovers that her inheritance and her mother's art are linked to the region's greatest tragedy: the fishing boat disaster of 1939. The regrets of the past return and ultimately cast a shadow over the present.
Originally published in 1997 by Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd. This edition is a reprint and the text is in English.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking family dramas, secrets from the past, and a maritime Cornish setting.
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
