Both a spellbinding love story & a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past Castle Dor is a book with unique & fascinating origins It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch the celebrated 'Q' & was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier whose storytelling skills were perfectly suited to the task of completing the old master's tale The result is this magical compelling recreation of the legend of Tristan & Iseult transplanted in time to the Cornwall of the last century A chance encounter between the Breton onion-seller Amyot Trestane & the newly-wed Linnet Lewarne launches their tragic story taking them in the fateful footsteps of the doomed lovers of Cornish legend