![]() ![]() There are also Captain O'Hara, the skipper of that glorious ship the Green Dolphin, who sails through the book as its presiding genie from almost the first page to the last Timothy Haslam the lumberman Samuel Kelly and his wife Susanna who typify in their courageous persons the idealism of those men and women who sailed away from the Old World to found what they hoped would be an earthly paradise beyond the seas. The return of these two to the Islands, after an absence of many years, sets off disrupting sparks in the quiet and peaceful lives of its inhabitants. Edward Ozonne, whom Sophie loved in her youth, and his handsome son William. There are Sophie and Octavius Le Patourel, parents of the heroines-Marianne, moody, passionate and brilliant and Marguerite, lovely, sunny tempered and possessed of a great capacity for enjoying life. The characters are as varied and interesting and provocative a group as ever assembled between the pages of a book. The place is the little city of Saint Pierre on the largest of the islands. ![]() In GREEN DOLPHIN STREET Elizabeth Goudge returns to a scene she has made famous in Island Magic and in many short stories-the Channel Islands. ![]()
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