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Tamarisk Calder was born the day the Chilverton Canal came into being; her first memory was of watching one of her father’s packer boats with its gaily painted cabins being pulled through the water by two strong horses. To Tam it was the epitome of romance, and its spell would stay with her always – though a different sort of magic would enter her life with the handsome radical, Charles Waring.
But Jamie Calder died when Tam was just eighteen, leaving his family penniless: the Calder Boats and family home sold to pay off the debts. It was left to Tam to take charge, and with her flighty, aristocratic mother Annabel, and two sisters, the plain and socially ambitious Celia and delicate Juliet, to make the new Calder home on the boat, Princess. Tam was determined to carry out her father’s last wish: to keep the boats running in the face of the encroaching railways – even when her single-mindedness conflicted with her love for Charles …
‘A racy family sage spanning a century and set in the heyday of the canal age makes entrancing reading’ Yorkshire Post
Paperback, 505 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of pen mark on front cover and minor age related colour change..