Children of the Mist

Will Blanchard, a hot-headed young water-bailiff, loves Phoebe Lyddon, daughter of a prosperous Teign-valley miller who forbids the match. When the Grimbal brothers come home from South Africa and John Grimbal sets his sights on Phoebe, an enmity takes hold that runs for a decade. The novel that opens the Dartmoor Cycle.

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Sources: Project Gutenberg (free text) · Internet Archive (free scan) · Goodreads. First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.

Number 1 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.