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On Dartmoor, love and family secrets share a landscape of granite, bogs and mist.
Eve, a Gothic romance by Sabine Baring-Gould, takes you into the lonely moorland of Devon. Granite tors rise above wide slopes, sudden weather changes the scene, and old stone circles mark the land. This is more than a backdrop: the moor shapes the lives of those who call it home.
Love, secrets and the price of freedom lie at the heart of this Victorian romance. The pull of personal desire meets the weight of family, rank and custom. Baring-Gould brings his close knowledge of Devon to a world where place matters, family histories cast shadows, and freedom raises the question of what must be given up.
What you’ll discover
- A moor with presence Enter a landscape of granite outcrops, empty slopes and mist that shapes human lives.
- Love within limits Explore the tension between what a heart wants and what its community allows.
- The shadow of secrets Feel the unease of family histories that weigh upon the present.
- The cost of freedom Consider what independence can mean when home, safety and good standing are at stake.
- Atmosphere worth lingering in Settle into a Victorian romance where wild surroundings and strong feeling invite unhurried attention.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy moorland mysteries, old houses full of secrets, family feuds, and warm characters drawn with humour and affection.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A stranger comes for his daughter
- A loan and a promise sworn in sunlight
- Two sisters and a night on the moor
- A patient with a secret to guard
- Doctors, debts and a dangerous scythe
- Secrets, a boy with a fiddle, and a ring
- An attic, a dance and growing suspicion
- What the book says about love and blame
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Eve JordanThe beautiful, light-hearted younger daughter of Morwell, who longs for music, the theatre and a life beyond the moor.
- Barbara JordanEve's older half-sister, sensible and loyal, who runs the house and farm and gives everything for her sister.
- Ignatius JordanThe anxious squire of Morwell, who studies metals and dreads the day his loan falls due.
- Martin BabbJasper's handsome, vain and reckless younger brother, who loves the stage and finds trouble wherever he goes.
- WattThe youngest Babb, a mocking, nimble boy with a fiddle who serves Martin and frightens Eve and Jane.
- Ezekiel BabbA stern, miserly cloth maker who hates what he calls strange blood and holds tight to his money.
- Mr. CoysheA vain, talkative young surgeon with big opinions who hopes to marry Eve and make his name in London.
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Eve
by Sabine Baring-Gould · 1888
On Midsummer Day, a stranger demands Eve from a haunted man in a Dartmoor lodge, and a loan seals two families together.
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A man sits in an old hunting lodge on Midsummer Day with a gun against his side and a baby asleep at his feet. Then a stranger walks in and asks, where is Eve?
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A stranger comes for his daughter
The story opens at Morwell House, an old hunting lodge of the abbots of Tavistock. Ignatius Jordan sits with a gun and a sleeping baby when Ezekiel Babb walks in and demands to see his daughter Eve.
Babb is a hard, greedy man who hates the foreign, restless blood of his late wife. He tells how he married a dancing girl he met at a fair, and how his own Eve ran off with players. Jordan admits that Eve has gone and that her baby girl lies in the cradle.
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What is Eve by Baring-Gould about?
It follows two sisters at Morwell House on the edge of Dartmoor, a debt between two families, an escaped prisoner and the mystery of a vanished mother, all told with humour and a growing sense of dread.
Who is Eve in the novel?
There are several Eves. The main one is the beautiful younger daughter of Ignatius Jordan, named after her missing mother, and her mother's own mother also bore that name.
Where is the story set?
It is set at Morwell, an old hunting lodge above the River Tamar near Tavistock in Devon, with scenes on the moor, at Raven Rock, at Buckfastleigh and in Plymouth.
The author
Sabine Baring-Gould
1834–1924 · English novelist and folklorist
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was an English clergyman, novelist, antiquarian and collector of folk songs. He was born in Exeter and later lived at Lewtrenchard in Devon, where he died. His writings included The Book of Were-Wolves, published in 1865, and the novel Grettir the Outlaw, published in 1890.
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