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Author’s Note While the cliffs at Eype are famous for their fossils, the cliffs at Portwrinkle aren’t. (I embroidered the truth a little there.) Lansallos church is very beautiful, with arched windows and a Norman font and carved oak pews from the 1500s. There really is a cutting down to Lansallos Cove, but I’ve made it much narrower and darker than it is in real life. It’s actually wide enough for a cart, which begs the question: Why would you take a cart down to a small, deserted beach? Were farmers gathering seaweed for their fields . . . or was the cutting used by smugglers? (You can probably guess which explanation I prefer.) The cave at Craigruie that Hubert Cathcart wanted to visit does exist. It’s one of several where Robert the Bruce may have seen the spider that changed Britis