Desolation Island (Aubrey Maturin Series)
Series: Aubrey-Maturin (5)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: August 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780393308129
First sentence: The breakfast-parlour was the most cheerful room in Ashgrove Cottage, and although the builders had ruined the garden with heaps of sand and unslaked lime and bricks, and although the damp walls of the new wing in which this parlour stood still smelt of plaster, the sun poured in, blazing on the covered silver dishes and lighting the face of Sophie Aubrey as she sat there waiting for her husband.