Lucy Wood

In these stories, Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wrecker's lamps, standing stones and baying hounds, and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea.

Ada is back in the house she left thirteen years ago – and with her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through her late mother Pearl's things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. But Pepper and Ada find themselves irresistibly entangled with the life of the valley, and soon each will discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together.