Dorothy K Morris

Tally's Nook Dorothy K Morris

"Mr. Barnes, you can take this shipyard and all the others and shove 'em up His Majesty's bloody arse." Shouting these treasonous words to his employer, Isham Holt, by far the most skilled shipwright in England, angrily left his place of employment and began a journey of discovery: of a new land, a new culture, new friends and ultimately of himself. At a time when Colonial South Carolina had ended its Proprietary phase and had become a Crown Colony, the Talleigh fortune was thoroughly invested in this new world. Lord Fredrick Talleigh had dreams of new endeavors and new ways of living that, as the new head of The Colonial Land, Shipping and Commerce Company, and with his beloved Corinna by his side, he was determined to establish. Tally's Nooktakes us from pages of Dirty Rice into new territory with new characters and old.  We  follow  them  as  they  all  struggle  to  survive  and  to  love  and  to  prosper  amid  the  outrages  of  fevers  and  violent  storms,   even   emotional  storms,  in  this  beautiful  land:  the  Low  Country  of  South  Carolina.