The Serpentine Cave (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Series)

From an award-winning author. 'A thoughtful and intelligent author.' - New York Times 'A beautiful and unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance.' - OBSERVER on The Knowledge Of Angels When her mother dies, Marian realizes she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the war'. One of the paintings in her mother's studio, a portrait of a young man, is inscribed 'For Marian'. Is this her father? And who was he? Marian's search takes her to the Cornish town of St Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have co-existed for many years. She must delve deep into the past to discover the identity of a man she never knew, and in so doing confront the demons which have tortured her adult life.