Review
'The Main Cages' is quite simply a joy to read. It is at once a memorable adventure, a moving love story, and an intriguing portrait of a changing way of life -- and on every level, it succeeds magnificently.' Mail on Sunday 'Marsden brilliantly evokes the everyday life of a Cornish village!a gripping yarn.' Evening Standard 'Philip Marsden's luminous first novel is an elemental tale of man and nature and the profoundly skewed relationship in which they are locked!Underpinning all this is Marsden's lean, exact and beautiful prose. Even the details of the nautical world acquire a poetry. Like a seashell it contains the various music of the sea within it.' TLS 'Like a latter-day Dylan Thomas peeping through the windows in 'Under Milk Wood', Marsden charts the changes and observes the constants of [Polmayne's] communal life.' Sunday Times 'The world of Polmayne is so sharply observed that its [characters] stay etched in the mind like old photographs.' Independent

To be released in Woodbridge today.

Left on the wall by The Thoroughfare