A Quiet Year

The Minack Chronicles

by Derek Tangye

175 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 1984

About the author

During WWII, Derek Tangye worked for MI5 (the U.K.'s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency) and, after the war, he worked as a newspaper columnist. His wife, Jeannie Nicol Tangye, was a hotel PR executive. They both left their jobs in the city to move to a simple cottage on a flower farm in Cornwall.

Reviews

[Mari-Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Derek Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996)

I'm so pleased to have met Derek Tangye at the place he came to love so much.

[windinthewilloreads · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely book.