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Down by the Sea

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Down by the Sea
First edition
AuthorWalter Greenwood
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherHutchinson
Publication date
1956
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byWhat Everybody Wants 

Down by the Sea is a 1956 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.[1] It is the final entry of a trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall.[2] Durrall, the principal protagonist of the previous novel marries a woman and is able to prosper by opening his cottage as a tea house for tourists.

It was his penultimate published novel, followed by the Manchester-set Saturday Night at the Crown in 1959.

References

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  1. ^ Woods p.149
  2. ^ Hopkins p.247

Bibliography

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  • Hopkins, Chris. Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Woods, Tim. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists. Routledge, 2008.