The Loving Spirit
Subtitle: AVON W365: ''A Triump of Passion & Intensity'' * ''A Bold, Vibrant Portrait of a High-spirited Family''--bk cvr
Edition: First Avon Printing, Jan '73
Series: AVON Historical Romance Books: W365 [$1.25]
Publisher: Avon Books, a div. of The Hearst Corporation, by arrangmt w/ Doubleday & Company Inc.
Published: January 1973
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780837604152
Copyright date: 1959 by Daphne Du Maurier Browning; 1931 by Doubleday and Company, Inc.
Description: Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe, born in turn of the 20th century Cornwall, she longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family.

Janet's loving spirit - the passionate yearning for adventure and for love - is passed down to her son, and through him to his children's children. As generations of the family struggle against hardship and loss, their intricately plotted history is set against the greater backdrop of war and social change in Britain. 

Praise for Daphne du Maurier: "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." - Sunday Telegraph

"[du Maurier] tells a story because it's a good story, because it has something of beauty in it, and therefore of truth. She pictures life itself rather than all the dark and torturous currents that twist below its surface... Miss du Maurier's book is a grand one."--Chicago Tribune
Notes: ***Published in the USA and Printed in Canada*** / Other system no. (OCoLC)5516897
Table of contents: title: Book 1 * Janet Coombe * 001; title: Book 2 * Joseph Coombe * 093; title: Book 3 * Chritsoper Coombe * 189; title: Book 4 * Jennifer Coombe * 249