She's All the World to Me

It was published only in America due to copyright problems, but Caine was subsequently able to reuse a great deal of its material in later novels, notably in The Deemster.

Danny Fayle, a young fisherman in Peel, is too shy to make much of his love for Mona Cregeen, a skilled machinist at the town's net factory.

However, their boat becomes stuck on rocks during a storm and Danny Fayle eventually risks his life in order to save Christian and deliver him to Mona.

In 1885, Caine was short of money and wanted to gain exposure in America and so submitted She's all the World to Me to be published in New York by Harper & Brothers.

[3] The book is not mentioned by name in Caine's autobiography,[4] nor at all in the major early biographical works on him by C. Fred Kenyon (1901) and Samuel Norris (1948).