A novel by Rosa Pendarves COMING
A leak shows what the marina plans really mean: Tide Row, demolished. Somebody has to tell the council. The only people willing are eleven, twelve and thirteen years old.
In The Marina Papers, Polperran’s bright harbour talk turns uneasy when a leak reveals what the marina plans could really mean for Tide Row: demolition. The grown-up words — planning, council, objections — suddenly feel close enough to touch, and the question becomes painfully simple: if the village needs warning, who is brave enough to speak? Rosa Pendarves gives civic danger a salt-sprayed, human heart.
Readers aged nine to twelve will relish a mystery that treats young people as capable thinkers, not bystanders. The pace is crisp and page-turning, with room for humour in the gap between official language and what children can plainly see. The peril is real but grounded: no nightmares, just the knotty thrill of deciding what is right when adults may not be listening.
As part of The Polperran Mysteries, The Marina Papers lets readers meet Polperran at an age when fairness and local loyalties begin to feel complicated. It connects the shared storybook village to bigger questions about planning, politics and who gets a say in a place they love, while keeping the Cornish harbour setting recognisably warm, close-knit and alive across Little Chough Press’s age-banded world.