Inn on the Marsh [Import] [Paperback]

Lena Kennedy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New Ed edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751517364
• ISBN-13: 978-0751517361
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,712,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book with brilliant atmosphere!, July 19, 1999

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This review is from: The Inn on the Marsh (Charnwood Library) (Hardcover)

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.