The author

Rushforth Morley was born in St Mawgan, Cornwall. He was educated at Blundell's School and at the University of Kent. He has been teaching EFL for twenty-five years, mostly in Italy, but also in the Crimea, Moscow, Hong Kong and Cairo. He currently lives in a well-appointed garret somewhere in the Po Valley with a very small dog. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gift of Honey coming drekkly from bluechrome 

  

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 "The Gift of Honey is a true curiosity, with its delight in lore and unscholarly learning. Of local appeal, yes, but by being so intensely local it becomes much more than that - the flavour of the place this writing gives is richer and more faithful than most of what appears in the holiday bookshops... unusual enough to become a minor cult." Philip Gross

 

 

© 2008 R. Rushforth Morley

Rushforth Morley

The Gift of Honey                 

Events in a remote 19thC Cornish fishing village are interwoven with the tales of the Celtic saints, narrated by the lonely Parson Mudge. The novel builds to a climax as Mudge saves a notorious local smuggler from hanging in Bodmin Jail. He is then to go on to officiate at a double-wedding, which portends peace for the village as well as vindicating him as the true pastor of his flock. Yet even in his hour of triumph Mudge is not home and dry, for the reader’s last glimpse of him shows the parson floating out to sea in a barrel…

                       

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