Dimensions
129 x 197 x 14mm
A drab, drear-looking house, Dunamara squats on the Donegal coast across the lough from Derry. It is a rough, windswept setting, but for six-year-old Evelyn Corner - brought here each year to holiday with his brothers, sisters and cousins - it is an enchanted place.
A world away from England, school and duty, they can wander at will all summer long, roam in wild packs with village children, clamber and climb like squirrels, swim and dive like otters. Around them always, investing every moment with beauty and magic, is the miraculous, metallic weight of the sea.
Here is the innocence and excitement. Here, above all, is anticipation. Only occasionally is there a hint of another life awaiting them, a life of adulthood, of responsibilities, perhaps even of disappointments . . .
The only paperback edition available, with a chronology of Cary's life and times.
