Why a Booktrail?
1860 – 1886 onwards: An orphan finds she has a family she’s never met. It then her real problems begin..
Miss Mary’s Daughter
What you need to know before your trail
After her mother’s death, twenty-year-old Sophie Ross is left orphaned, with only her erstwhile nursemaid and faithful friend, Hannah for company. Penniless and little chance of an income, she looks for work as a governess in London to avoid destitution.
But unbeknown to Sophie, her mother instructed Hannah to post a letter to Trescadinnick House in Cornwall upon her death. The letter will be the catalyst that changes Sophie’s life forever as she learns of her mother’s doomed romance and family she left behind in Cornwall.
The Penvarrow family welcomes Sophie into their fold, but the new life she’s built is threatened by secrets and lies that soon come to light…
Travel Guide
Cornwall
Trescadinnick
Sadly fictional but it captures all the beauty and remoteness of rural Cornwall. They go there by train and take the tiny branch line to St Morwen which is the closest station to the house and valley.
St Morwen is the local market town…”not much more than an overgrown village really.”
“Trescadinnick stood strong and sold, staring out across the pewter of the restless sea. In the distance,e early-morning smoke rose from the hidden chimneys of Port Felec, the little fishing village and its harbor sheltered from the worse of the weather in a hollow of the cliffs”
London
The contrast with their life in London, the city where you can get run over by a hansom in one of its famous pea-soup fogs is clear.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Miss Mary’s Daughter
Destination : Cornwall Author/Guide: Diney Costeloe Departure Time: 1860s
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