Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Village

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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash: Ep 5 Returning to Shore

Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash

Ep 5 Returning to Shore

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In Lamorna Ash's evocative memoir, there is one last wonder on board the fishing trawler.

In Lamorna Ash's evocative and vivid memoir about a Cornish fishing community, there is one last wonder on board the fishing trawler. Ell Potter reads.

In Lamorna Ash' evocative and vivid memoir about the Cornish fishing community of Newlyn, near Land's End, there is one last wonder on board the fishing trawler. First of all, Lamorna recounts a tragedy on the high seas which still reverberates along Cornwall's coast.  Ell Potter reads.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and playwright. Dark, Salt, Clear is her first book.

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Produced by Elizabeth Allard

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An evocative portrait of life in Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain.

Book of the Week. Lamorna Ash's evocative and vivid memoir about the fishing community in Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain.

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