A Cornish Summer

"I will begin exploring the Confusion Room today." So declares Derek Tangye at the beginning of the final Minack Chronicle, the autobiographical series that has been an inspiration to readers all around the world. Delving into the mass of letters and papers in the abandoned stable at Minack, the remote Cornish cottage where he lived alone after the death of his wife Jeannie, Derek weaves pieces of his past into the story of those last peaceful years spent in the company of his donkeys Merlin and Susie. Poignant and deeply evocative, The Confusion Room is a marvelous tribute to the memory of Derek Tangye.