Lorna Doone

At Blundell’s school, a candle and a handful of saltpetre can turn a boy’s desk into a smoking, sparking crater. John Ridd remembers such pranks with a grin—but the life ahead will give him harder things to reckon with.

John tells his tale from the rugged parish of Oare, on Exmoor, looking back to seventeenth-century Devon and Somerset. A farmer’s son with a plainspoken wit, he is drawn into the shadow of the Doone clan, outlaws bound up with his family’s grief. Then he falls in love with Lorna, who seems to belong to the very people he has reason to hate. As danger gathers around the valley, John must choose between the claims of old wounds and a devotion that could cost him dearly. Can love survive where vengeance has taken root?

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