The Golden Cup
Published by Transworld. Jacket Photo: Gettyimages. Design: Stephen Mulcahey
Port Quin, on the north coast of Cornwall, was the cove that inspired
Marcia to write The Golden Cup
Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: Paradise, the house at the
head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her
family. Frail and elderly, Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is
inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an
old black-
Honor’s children Bruno and Emma, granddaughter Joss and faithful cousin Mousie try to nurse Honor back to health, unaware of the secrets she keeps from those closest to her. Increasingly troubled and confused, she begs Joss to find a cache of letters that have been hidden for fifty years.
Too late to hear the story from Honor herself
