Martello Beach

Kester Brewin

'What hell is this, when all I'd done was try to build heaven?' In 1929, Foff Stedman buys a farm and creates 'the happiest place in England'. But rising sea levels - and tides of war - threaten this seaside utopia, and overwhelm one family who have fled the Blitz to shelter there. 'Mantel on the Essex coast', Martello Beach is a powerful exploration of loss, memory and redemption - written by Stedman's great-grandson, and rooted in one of Britain's most extraordinary working-class communities.

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