The Inn on the Marsh

By Lena Kennedy

Book Overview

Time alone would heal the sorrows of Hollinbury, bright dreams banish the old unhappy ghosts . . . The Malted Shovel, exuberant heart and soul of Hollinbury Hamlet, buzzed with talk while the ale flowed. Talk of Dumb Lukey's crazed acts and the romance between Lucinda and Joe Lee, the Thames bargee. Talk of the Crimea and the terror of Napoleon. At the tavern, hard-headed Beatrice and her sister Dot care for their invalid father and for Lucinda, their pretty orphaned niece. The inn is their livelihood but village business is ever Beat's business too. And now some dark cloud has descended on them all . . .

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444767410
• ISBN13: 9781444767414
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.4" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A great book with brilliant atmosphere!

This story is centered around an old inn on the Kent marshes in rural England at the time of the Napolionic War. Old Dot and Aunt Beet have been left with the care of thier neice Lucinda, as she grows up she becomes very beatiful and the old aunts try to protect her from the outside world, but a mysterious stranger has his eye on Lucinda, and eventually a tragedy awaits the young girl. What of the Shulmead family who work the old forge up on the hill? Sam the tyrannical father is found with his head completley hacked off, has it anything to do with his sons Matt and Mark who suddenly run away to the Army? Or was it his son John, who slaves away at the brickfields from dawn till dusk with Larlee his drunken slovenly taskmaster? Or yet another Shulmead son Luke the imbecile? Find out in this lively and atmospheric novel.