For more than fifty years the author has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as she grows older, however, her sense of connection with the place grows deeper and more complicated. This slippery interface of land and sea - a place of sheer edges and ledges, strange rock formations and eroding, tumbling slate becomes her place of safety from childhood anxiety and, later, the terror of school bullying.
The cove draws her ineluctably. Around the time of her parents'' deaths, uncanny things start to happen here. Is it the cove, or is it her? The place that she thought she knew inside out becomes strange. She discovers that her wild cove has a very populated past. A new acquaintanceship with the place begins, shared with her husband and friends, and local farmers who befriend her. But maybe the cove doesn''t want to be known. And one day, in her safe recess, she wi
