Out to sea from Staithes, North Yorkshire
Sally Heywood recorded Bringing the Last Boat Home as part of the BBCs IGNITE programme.
The Mariners Star is a love story and, like all great love stories, a death story... a treat to be lingered over... the writing is so evocative that it feels like being inside a painting... (Geraldine Bedell, The Observer)
Listen to Candida Clark read Chapter 1 of The Mariners Star
North Yorkshire coast
Click here for Chapter 2 of The Mariners Star
Staithes, North Yorkshire
Candida Clark will be reading from her forthcoming novel A House of Light (
Headline Press, January 2005) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. For more information, and to book tickets, click here.
Photographs taken by Candida Clark