num_pages: 287
description: Spring had come to the West Country a joyous spring laden with soft airs and odours of distant flowering lands and filling the hearts of men with a restless delight. It seemed impossible not to be happy with a blue sky flecked by little clouds running down to meet a blue sea the hedgerows gleaming with blackthorn and the pink tips of the beeches shining in the sun. Children were out in the copses picking primroses; farmers counted their lambs in the pasture and down in the harbour sailor boys watched the rising tide and were all impatience to be aboard.
language: English
title: The Admiral's Daughter
publisher: Oxford