Down by the Sea is a 1956 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.

[1] It is the final entry of a trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall.

[2] Durrall, the principal protagonist of the previous novel marries a woman and is able to prosper by opening his cottage as a tea house for tourists.

It was his penultimate published novel, followed by the Manchester-set Saturday Night at the Crown in 1959.

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