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    The Ferryman's Daughter
    The Ferryman's Daughter
    The Ferryman's Daughter
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    The Ferryman's Daughter

    By Michael Tod

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    In a remote coastal village in medieval Wales, the King’s tax assessor and a woman he knows only as The Ferryman’s Daughter, sit up by a fire of driftwood through a long winter’s evening and far into the night. She tells him how she once stupidly helped the man she loved, Jack Ladd, steal into a castle to woo Lord Cedric’s spoilt daughter who Jack wrongly believed was in love with him. So traumatic has her life been as a result of this that she has forgotten her real name and her guest sets out to help her recall it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Tod
    Release dateJun 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301620685
    The Ferryman's Daughter
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    Michael Tod

    Novelist, poet and philosopher Michael Tod was born in Dorset in 1937. He lived near Weymouth until his family moved to a hill farm in Wales when he was eleven. His childhood experiences on the Dorset coast and in the Welsh mountains gave him a deep love and a knowledge of wild creatures and wild places, which is reflected in his poetry and novels.Married with three children and three grandchildren, he still lives, works and walks in his beloved Welsh hills but visits Dorset whenever he can.Michael Tod has recently published his first non-fiction book 'The Ferry Boat - Finding a Credible God'.

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