On a nasty November night, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin moor. Her mother’s dying wish was that she take refuge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn. When the coach driver hears where she’s going, he insists she must have made a mistake. “That’s no place for a girl,” the coach driver tells her.
T J Dockree mainly writes fantasy and historical dramas inspired by Cornwall, where she has lived, since moving here with her parents, at 18 months old. She has two short stories appearing in the Cornish anthology Cornwall: Misfits, Curiosities and Legends.