I’ve read this book excruciatingly slowly, over about six weeks, and it’s only short to start with. I managed to miss any possible connection between the two threads of story in the plot and, fairly obviously, got rather bored with the book. I am intruigued to see mention of Gale’s later book Rough Music as a “sequel” though as I loved that book and can’t remember any connection between this and that apart from the Cornish setting. Will have to figure that out.