In 1904 when she was six Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house
by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship so isolated that she
might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for eighty-one years while the
century raged around her while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dred.
Crusoe's Daughter ambitious moving and wholly original is her story. 'Jane Gardam is at
her most characteristic and briliant' Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times 'Engaging and witty'
Observer 'Touching terribly sad funny: a smashing novel' The Times 'Fresh and vivid . . .
comic touching eccentric' TLS
