It is 1845, and Martha Morgan,
Mistress of Plas Ingli, is feeling her age. She receives warnings
that she should “take care”. Her beloved estate
collapses, and she has to call upon her deepest reserves of
strength in order to survive. But her misery is lessened when
she meets a travelling evangelist on the summit of Angel Mountain.
It turns out that the fate of Amos Jones Minor Prophet is inextricably
bound up with her own. A single indiscretion in Tycanol Wood
splits the community and tests the loyalty of friends and family
to the limit, and starts a drift towards the final tragic episodes
of Martha’s life.
While Martha is dealing with these personal crises, she is also
drawn to help the peasants caught up in the Irish Potato Famine.
A shipwreck on the coast near Newport gives her the opportunity
to do something practical, but in the process she offends the
secret Society of Sea Serjeants. Her family tries to protect
her from evil men who are driven by ancient family animosities.
But her fighting spirit is stronger than her body, and she takes
them on. It becomes clear that Martha will not die in her bed;
nor does she, but in the final act of her exciting life there
are breathless twists and turns which confound her enemies and
leave her undefeated.
More Information
Greencroft Books - Historical Fiction
Publication Date: 01/11/2005 - 400 pp - 210 x 147 mm - ISBN
0905559843
Territory: World All Languages
