Nell Ashby
The island’s new constable, three weeks into her first posting. Point of view 1.
PersonWant: to be left alone to do a small job well.
Need: to stop treating the island’s silences as manners.
Thread: the investigation. She reads paper: files, logs, carbon copies.
Appears in15 items
- The Last Ferry to Skerrow: a novel outline15 items
- Nell steps off the ferry · point of view−21 d
- Nell asks for the Merrow file · point of view−11 d
- Dray and Baird on the pier · point of view−3 d
- Dray is found · point of view+6 h
- The gale closes the sound · point of view+12 h
- Dr Marr’s first finding · point of view+1 d 9 h
- Rudd tells no one what he saw+1 d 22 h
- The first ferry since the gale · point of view+2 d 11 h
- The Merrow file arrives, thin · point of view+4 d 10 h
- Rudd confesses to the fire+6 d 9 h
- The diesel drum is still sealed · point of view+7 d 11 h
- Mairead brings Nell the photocopy+8 d 15 h
- The carbon sheet has no night run · point of view+10 d 11 h
- Rudd takes it back+10 d 19 h
- Nell arrests Baird · point of view+20 d 6 h