The Sea Shell Girl

Seventeen-year-old Merryn Dyer has been helping her mother knit fishermen's jumpers in their little Cornish village for as long as she can remember. Blonde and blue-eyed, she is different to the rest of the villagers and never felt like she fitted in. She takes after her father, her mother says - a seaman who died before she was born. Life's a struggle. So when she is offered a job in a department store in Plymouth, she jumps at the chance, despite her mother's reservations. However, once out of her village she begins to uncover long-buried secrets about her past that threaten to unravel everything that she thought she knew.