Sheila Kaye-Smith

Susan Spray is a remarkable novel by a writer who deserves resurrection: Sheila Kaye-Smith, once celebrated as the "Sussex novelist", and now almost forgotten. Her novels have two major narrative virtues: they go with a "passionate swing" (her own phrase), and they combine a strong sense of...

Isle of Thorns PART I CHAPTER I an hour after sunrise The newly risen sun was bright enough to wake the sheep, but not warm enough to dry the dew on their fleeces, and the wind that puffed across the Forest made Raphael Moore shiver. Now and then he turned to face the sun and wind, together...

Drei Marschen liegen zwischen dem Dreieck, das der Königliche Heereskanal und die Küsten von Sussex und Kent bilden. Der Kanal zieht sich an der Militärstraße von Hythe nach Rye entlang. Zwischen dieser und den flachen, weißen Ufern des Ärmelkanals liegen die Marschen von Romney, Dunge und...