A Wind From The Sea

The third novel in the author's series of Welsh village life in the 19th century following THE RUNNING TIDE and UPON STORMY DOWNS.A highwayman holds up the stage-coach as it makes its way through the snow to the hamlets of Newton, Nottage and Port on the Welsh coast, and he leaves behind a young Irishman with a fearful wound in his chest. He is taken to the house of the justice Robert Knight where Joshua Stradling, parish constable, is informed of the act and begins the hunt for the criminal. ORIGINAL PUB. DATE 1989