Summer Visitors

Susan Sallis has been the author of several best-selling novels in England, including April Rising , published by St. Martin’s Press in America in 1984. Now, in Summer Visitors , she has given us the story of a turbulent family, and of the remarkable woman who held it together.

The land of Cornwall—with its gorgeous countryside, its breathtaking sea, and the sheer magnificence of their meeting—was like a beacon of healing, refreshing light to Madge and her family. Though she was only four years old when she first saw the Cornish sea, she knew from that moment that the real beginning of her life had happened here, at the water’s edge. It was here that her family grew and suffered and loved; and it was here, on the rocky seaside cliffs, that Madge would find tragedy, passion, and, finally happiness.