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The Salt Roadfirst version

Front matter 1

Body 4

1The Harbour

2Salt

3The Crossing4
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4Lanterns

Back matter 2

About the Author

Bibliography

Canon

Use the CanonWrites with your confirmed facts

Characters 3Places 1Ties 2

Mara ElleryProtagonist · Ch 1 to 4

Elin ElleryGrandmother · Ch 1, 2

Tomas VaneHarbour master · Ch 3, 4

Places

Salt Island

Relationships

Elingrandmother ofMara

Tomasknew her as a childMara

Sources

Interviews, harbour families.pdfUploaded · waiting…Reading & indexingCreating summaryFile · 48 pagesCited in Chapter 3

Ferry timetable 1998.pdfFile · 12 pages

Hale, The Salt Trade of the North SeaBook · 340 pages

A history of the harbourWebsite · islandarchive.org

Notes from the archiveText · 2,140 words

Lighthouse, winterImage

Research on 1990s ferriesChat · saved conversation

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The Crossing

The ferry left at dawn. Mara stood at the rail and watched a sea she had only ever seen in pictures. On the lower deck a boy sold oranges from a crate, and the gulls kept pace with the boat.

The ferry left at dawn. Mara stood at the rail and watched a sea she had only ever seen in picturesand watched the grey water she had left at nine. On the lower deck a boy sold oranges from a crate, and the gulls kept pace with the boat.

The ferry left at dawn. Mara stood at the rail and watched the grey water she had left at nine. On the lower deck a boy sold oranges from a crate, and the gulls kept pace with the boat.

The crossing took four hours. She tried to picture Elin’s house from the photograph in her bag. Somewhere below, a radio played a song she half remembered from her father’s car.

The crossing took four hours. She tried to picture Elin’s house from the photograph in her bag.In winter the boat came only twice a week, and the old men on the quay still called it the post boat.¹ Somewhere below, a radio played a song she half remembered from her father’s car.

The crossing took four hours. In winter the boat came only twice a week, and the old men on the quay still called it the post boat.¹ Somewhere below, a radio played a song she half remembered from her father’s car.

When the island finally rose out of the haze, it was smaller than the photographs. The lanterns were already lit along the quay, and Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap, holding her name on a card.

When the island finally rose out of the haze, it was smaller than the photographsshe remembered. The lanterns were already lit along the quay, and Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap, holding her name on a carda man who still knew her name.

When the island finally rose out of the haze, it was smaller than she remembered. The lanterns were already lit along the quay, and Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap, holding her name on a carda man who still knew her name.

When the island finally rose out of the haze, it was smaller than she remembered. The lanterns were already lit along the quay, and Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap, a man who still knew her name.

¹Interviews, harbour families, p. 14. Jon Ruddock, 2023.

Interviews, harbour familiesPDF · page 14“We called it the post boat. Twice a week in winter, if the sea let it.”

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after that the boat came twice a week, when the weather allowed. Mara’s grandmother kept the old timetable pinned inside the kitchen door long after it had stopped being true, and on mornings when no ferry came she said the sea was keeping it for someone else.

Every summer the visitors came for a week and left again, and every winter the island shrank back to the people who could not leave. The school had closed by then. The post came with the boat or not at all.

The house stood at the top of the harbour road, where the wind came straight off the water. In winter the windows rattled in their frames, and the salt left a white line along every sill.

Mara was nine when they left. She remembered the smell of the boat more than the island itself, diesel and wet rope and oranges, and the way her mother held the rail without looking back.

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Nobody on the quay asked where she had been. The lanterns hissed in the wind, and the men who were loading crates stopped long enough to nod at her, as if she had only gone across for the afternoon.

Tomas carried her bag up the harbour road without a word. At the top he set it down by the gate and looked at the house, the shutters open for the first time in years.

“Elin kept your room,” he said. “She said you would want the window.”

Inside, the kitchen smelled of peat and old paper. The timetable was still pinned to the door, curled at the corners, the winter crossings marked in a hand she knew at once.

Mara put her bag on the chair and stood there for a while, listening to the wind find the gaps in the window frames, the way it always had.

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3The Crossing

The ferry left at dawn. Mara stood at the rail and watched the grey water she had left at nine. On the lower deck a boy sold oranges from a crate, and the gulls kept pace with the boat.

The crossing took four hours. In winter the boat came only twice a week, and the old men on the quay still called it the post boat.¹

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Somewhere below, a radio played a song she half remembered from her father’s car.

She did not wave. She stood at the rail until the ropes were thrown and the boat bumped against the stones, and then she picked up her bag.

The quay was wet and smelled of fish and tar. A dog she did not know came to sniff her shoes and then lost interest. Up on the hill the house stood where it had always stood, smaller than the one in her memory, its windows catching the last of the light.

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Mara stood at the rail. She tried to picture Elin’s house. When the island rose out of the haze, Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap.

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Turn these interviews into a coherent chapter in my voice.Interviews, harbour families.pdf

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Read Chapter 1, The Harbour
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The Crossing

The ferry left at dawn. Mara stood at the rail ~~and watched a sea she had only ever seen in pictures~~and watched the grey water she had left at nine. On the lower deck a boy sold oranges from a crate, and the gulls kept pace with the boat.

When the island finally rose out of the haze, it was smaller than ~~the photographs~~she remembered. The lanterns were already lit along the quay, and Tomas Vane was waiting in his blue cap, ~~holding her name on a card~~a man who still knew her name.

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Interviews, harbour familiesPDF · page 14We called it the post boat. Twice a week in winter, if the sea let it.

¹ Interviews, harbour families, p. 14. Jon Ruddock, 2023.

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