Muriel Larkwood dreams of many things: of the ocean, of a love someday, of her father's return from Tidewater, the great harbor city where Muriel was born but family misfortune would not suffer her to stay. Thus her exile in a village far inland, with her parents, to the present hour, the week of Muriel's sixteenth birthday. Of the Bright Sea is the story of eight days in the lives of a thoroughly teenage dreamer and the orphan who is her dearest...