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There’s nothing romantic about Cornish fishermen, whatever tales they may spin

4 April 2020

9:00 AM

4 April 2020

9:00 AM

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

Bloomsbury, 16.99

Lamorna Ash came to the fishing port of Newlyn in south-west Cornwall to write a memoir. This is not unusual. There is a tendency, as old industries die, to watch them covetously and with awe; to paint them a paradigm of all that is lost. In the 19th century, fishwives posed for the artists of the Newlyn School on the quayside.

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