A Labrador Doctor

A blizzard leaves a fishing boat missing for twenty-four hours. When it finally returns, young Wilfred Grenfell is taken to see a boy he knew—frozen to death.

In the 1860s, Grenfell’s childhood unfolds on the wide, dangerous sands of Parkgate, where tides swallow unfinished embankments, storms fling boats ashore, and the Welsh hills seem like another world. To him, the estuary is a vast playground of birds, boats and secret adventures—but its beauty carries real peril. A fisherman’s loss, a boyhood battle and the wild pull of the currents shape his early sense of courage and responsibility. What will the restless child learn from a coast where wonder and danger arrive with the same tide?

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