Cover of The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars

The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars

This memoir of a 1923 to 1935 childhood pulsates with life. Newquay - its eccentric residents and exotic holiday-makers, its tennis tournaments and bathing parties, invigorating walks and teas at the Rose Cafe - is the Hallsmith children's entire world - a world observed and remembered in meticulous detail by young Elspeth."

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 358 pages

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