Widecombe Cot
Some houses keep secrets. This one keeps a country’s.
1965. Wendy Harvey sits down at the kitchen table of her mother’s Torquay hotel to write down everything she was never supposed to know.
A foreign officer slipping through Devon in the autumn of 1915. A clever Cambridge man hiding inside a grocer’s apron. And the war years at Widecombe Cot: blackout and air raids, torpedo boats in the bay, and a charming Canadian airman in Room 5 who takes a very close interest in a seven-year-old girl.
Behind the bowls-club meetings in the back room, an old network is waking up. And the quiet woman who books Room 3 every October hasn’t aged a day.
A wartime spy story, told through a daughter’s eyes.
