A novel by E. M. Curnow COMING
Dual timeline, 1721 and now: a fisherman's daughter who took her own ship, and a girl three centuries later reading her log — facing, line by line, the same choice.
In Jenny's Log, Polperran’s harbour holds two tides of story: 1721, when a fisherman’s daughter takes her own ship and becomes a pirate queen, and now, when a bell-touched girl reads her words across three hundred years. Each page of the log draws the two girls closer to the same choice, with salt, secrecy and old Cornish weather gathering round them, but the mystery is left for readers to follow, line by line.
For 12–15s, this is a more grown-up Polperran novel: tense, reflective and edged with real peril, but never bleak. Older readers will enjoy the diary-like pull of the log, the clean storytelling rhythm and the pleasure of piecing past and present together. Its courage is not easy courage, and that gives the book its reassurance: choices matter, fear can be named, and a young voice can still steer the tale.
Jenny's Log belongs to E. M. Curnow’s Polperran novels, where readers who first met the village in younger series find deeper waters waiting. The shared setting lets familiar harbours, legends and family echoes feel newly charged for teenage readers, while the Hoard and Bell threads connect this story to the wider pattern of Polperran without requiring every secret to be known in advance.