Author: Fern Britton

Fern Britton is an English broadcaster and novelist whose fiction often draws on coastal communities, family history, and the private choices that reshape relationships. Daughters of Cornwall, published by HarperCollins in 2020, follows three generations of women connected to Cornwall. Clara’s wartime experience in 1918, Hannah’s questions decades later, and Caroline’s discoveries in the present create a layered family narrative rather than a single-period story. The novel’s shifting chronology lets Britton examine how secrecy and inheritance travel across generations, while its Cornish setting connects the book to the landscape that recurs throughout her fiction. Britton is also known for novels such as The Newcomer and A Cornish Gift, alongside a long television career that included presenting This Morning. Daughters of Cornwall brings those strands of public storytelling and regional interest into one historical family saga. Its structure is central to its identity: three women, separated by time, gradually reveal how one earlier decision continues to shape the family that follows.