The Wind Off the Small Isles

Stewart's British publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, reissued it in 2016, for the first time in 40 years.

[1] Perdita works for children's writer Cora Gresham as secretary and personal assistant.

Cora is writing about pirates on the Barbary Coast and wants to visit the Canary Islands.

Perdita, after getting no answer at the front door, meets Michael in the grounds who is supervising building work.

There is a mention of Julian Gale from Stewart's earlier novel, This Rough Magic.