Smoky House: Week 4

The real Smuggler's Cove! Plus the Power of Music, Apple Blossom & a Beautiful Day

Girls Gone By Publishers edition of Smoky House by Elizabeth Goudge

“…As for the lovely West-Country itself, that held these human and fairy people in the hollow of its hand, it is a country that is always happy. It always has been happy and it always will be happy.

For generation after generation the sun and the rain and the wind sweep over its round green hills and high moors, and its sheltered wooded valleys. Year after year the moors are painted rose and purple by the sunset, the sheep and cows browse on the slopes of the hills, the primroses come out in the lanes and the birds sing for joy because the spring has come again.”

🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, Smoky House

End of a fairytale?

Or just the beginning of our own…

Elizabeth Goudge wrote her first West Country fairytale, Smoky House, as the “phony war” with Germany turned into an all too real war, and so there was certainly a lot of need for comforting.

Goudge settled on employing the simple beauties in life to her tale to encourage her child readers about the power and goodness in everyday things. And she offers us a glimpse of a re-enchanted real life world filled with blossoms and music, and valuing the care that we can give one to another.

Join us today for the conclusion of Smoky House for a look at the power of Music, Apple Blossom & a Beautiful Day. Also—the real Smuggler’s Cove!

Faraway illustration by C Walter Hodges for Smoky House

The Heart-softening Power of a Beautiful Day