A novel about Lettice Peters, the captain's wife of the title, who has travelled the world on her husband's ships but has now settled with her children in the little cathedral town of St Idris in Pembrokeshire. The coastline, farms, saint-haunted hills, cathedral and market cross of the village that boasts itself a city' are unforgettably evoked in this atmospheric and poignant novel. Eiluned Lewis (1900-1979) was a novelist, poet and journalist born near Newton, Montgomeryshire.'
