Primmy's Daughter

Cornish Clay #5

by Rowena Summers

Skye, the American daughter of Primmy Tremayne, has always been fascinated by the family’s romantic and turbulent history, and the old Cornish clay works around St Austell.

Taking a year’s sabbatical from her magazine work, she travels to Cornwall, eager to meet the older generation, and especially her grandmother, Morwen.

On board ship, she finds herself strongly attracted to college lecturer Philip Norwood, despite his entanglement to another woman.

Drawn into the world of her new relatives, and of Killigrew Clay, Skye begins to piece the past together. All this is halted at the breakout of the Great War. New fears for the future burst into clarity, when Philip, along with half of the clay workforce, enlist.

A moving tale of love and war, Primmy’s Daughter is a beautiful and absorbing saga, ideal for fans of Lesley Pearse, Lyn Andrews and Rosie Goodwin

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children. She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full time. She passed away on 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.

Jean began her career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married name Jean Saunders and her maiden name Jean Innes in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake. In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.

She was an active member and enthusiast of Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School, which takes place in Derbyshire, England, every August, she was a committee member several times, and also Vice-Chairman. She was elected the seventeenth Chairman (1993-1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. As a member of the Romance Writers of America she had given talks at conferences in various venues of the USA. She was a member of the Crime Writers' Association. She also was a member and past committee member of the West Country Writers' Association.

Reviews

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parts I really enjoyed like the details about the clay pots & making pottery and other parts, not at all.