Appointment With Venus

It is 1940. The world is at war, and all that stands between England and Nazi-occupied Europe is the tiny (fictitious) Channel Island of Armorel - controlled by German soldiers but home to loyal villagers, a pacifist painter ... and a pedigree Guernsey cow named Venus. A plot is hatched by the War Office in London to liberate Venus - and so this intrepid adventure begins, combining romantic young love and patriotic heroism with submarine missions, enemy action, wartime tragedy and cow-napping. Jerrard Tickell penned this book while lodging in Le Manoir on Sark - a grand old house that was once home to the island's feudal Seigneurs, and which also served as German Headquarters during the occupation. 'Appointment with Venus' was thus inspired by Sark's real-life history; after hearing about the evacuation of cattle from the Channel Islands during the Second World War, Tickell's re-telling of the story was enormously successful, both as this bestselling novel and as the acclaimed film of the same name, starring David Niven and Glynis Johns.

A brand new edition of the classic wartime adventure by Jerrard Tickell. First published in 1951 and now re-issued by Manderley Press, with an introduction by Rosa Rankin-Gee (author of 'The Last Kings of Sark'), and a front cover featuring a wallpaper design by renowned English designer Edward Bawden.