About The Gift of Honey...
Events in a remote 19th century Cornish fishing village are interwoven with tales of the Celtic saints, narrated by the lonely Parson Mudge.
Mudge struggles to gain the approval of his parishioners, gradually winning their acceptance as he lives alongside them through a cholera epidemic, and is drawn into supporting the smugglers on whom the village economy depends. At the same time, his rewriting of the legends of the Cornish saints brings him into conflict with the more orthodox conclusions of the Welsh scholar, Doctor Rees, as well as scandalising his niece, Isobel.
On the day when Mudge is to officiate at a double-wedding, which promises peace for the village as well as vindicating him as pastor of his flock, he disappears. The mystery behind Mudge’s disappearance are disclosed by Isobel, partly through her own confessions, and partly as a result of her detective work.