Zennor in Darkness
- ISBN-10
- 0754017699
- ISBN-13
- 9780754017691
- Category
- Cornwall (England : County)
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Helen Dunmore
Description
During World War I, D.H. Lawrence and his wife moved to Cornwall where they became the subject of intense suspicion from the locals. This forms the inspiration for this first novel centering on Clare, a young girl who comes under the influence of the Lawrences.
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