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This novel has all the feisty and awe-inspiring ingredients to be found in John's preceding books relating to Martha - and many of the original characters remain as alive and colourful as ever, together with several new and animated individuals who add still more flavour to the narrative. As always Martha finds a cause to fight for, and this time it is the Poor Irish, caught up in the Potato Famine of 1845-48. She becomes embroiled in a private battle with the secret Society of Sea Serjeants, and this gives her friends and family some considerable problems as they try to protect her from the society's vengeance. John, as always, has a magical feeling of place and his narrative is full of dynamism and perception. -- Norma Penfold --Gwales.com (Welsh Books Council)
The much loved Angel Mountain books take the form of a discovered diary, which follows the life of insuppressible heroine Mistress Martha Morgan from her late teenage years to her demise in this the final book.........Wackier she may get but it is apparent that Mistress Martha has lost none of the saltiness and spirit that have endeared her to readers since the first book called On Angel Mountain appeared from the author s own publishing imprint, Greencroft Books. -- Becky Hotchin. PembrokeshireTV --PembrokeshireTV
Successive books have turned Martha into Pembrokeshire's best-loved fictional character. The books have also turned Carningli (the key location in the saga, and the place where Martha has her secret cave) into a place of pilgrimage, climbed by many readers who generally stay well clear of mountains. Brian blames the spirit of the mountain for that phenomenon, but the books clearly have something to do with it. --News Wales (Western Mail)
The much loved Angel Mountain books take the form of a discovered diary, which follows the life of insuppressible heroine Mistress Martha Morgan from her late teenage years to her demise in this the final book.........Wackier she may get but it is apparent that Mistress Martha has lost none of the saltiness and spirit that have endeared her to readers since the first book called On Angel Mountain appeared from the author s own publishing imprint, Greencroft Books. -- Becky Hotchin. PembrokeshireTV --PembrokeshireTV
Successive books have turned Martha into Pembrokeshire's best-loved fictional character. The books have also turned Carningli (the key location in the saga, and the place where Martha has her secret cave) into a place of pilgrimage, climbed by many readers who generally stay well clear of mountains. Brian blames the spirit of the mountain for that phenomenon, but the books clearly have something to do with it. --News Wales (Western Mail)
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It is 1845, and Martha Morgan, Mistress of Plas Ingli, is feeling her age. She receives warnings that she should take care. Her beloved estate collapses, and she has to call upon her deepest reserves of strength in order to survive. But her misery is lessened when she meets a travelling evangelist on the summit of Angel Mountain. It turns out that the fate of Amos Jones Minor Prophet is inextricably bound up with her own. A single indiscretion in Tycanol Wood splits the community and tests the loyalty of friends and family to the limit, and starts a drift towards the final tragic episodes of Martha s life. While Martha is dealing with these personal crises, she is also drawn to help the peasants caught up in the Irish Potato Famine. A shipwreck on the coast near Newport gives her the opportunity to do something practical, but in the process she offends the secret Society of Sea Serjeants. Her family tries to protect her from evil men who are driven by ancient family animosities. But her fighting spirit is stronger than her body, and she takes them on. It becomes clear that Martha will not die in her bed; nor does she, but in the final act of her exciting life there are breathless twists and turns which confound her enemies and leave her undefeated.
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The last book in the wonderful Angel Mountain Saga. We meet the heroine Mistress Martha Morgan writing her diaries in the latter part of her life. She is as feisty and passionate as in her younger days. As before Brian John gives marvellous descriptions of the beautiful landscape of the Newport area in West Wales and an insight into many long forgotten customs of the Welsh people. His historical research is, as in the other books in the saga fascinating and his style of writing is refreshing. The books need to be read in order. Let’s hope Brian finds some more diaries in the Preseli Mountains soon!
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