The Wind Off the Small Isles

First edition
(publ. Hodder & Stoughton)
Cover art by Lawrence Irving

The Wind Off the Small Isles is a novella by Mary Stewart, first published in 1968. Unlike her other works, it is brief, at only 96 pages in hardcover. It was never published in the United States and is hard to find today.

Plot summary

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. After hearing Perdita's description of the various islands, Cora decides on Lanzarote.

Only two days after arriving there, Cora decides she wants to buy a house. While driving around the island they reach Playa Blanca and Cora sees just the house she is looking for. She sends Perdita to ask who owns it. 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.

Novels by Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy	The Crystal Cave (1970) The Hollow Hills (1973) The Last Enchantment (1979) The Wicked Day (1983) The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)

Other novels	Madam, Will You Talk? (1954) Wildfire at Midnight (1956) Thunder on the Right (1957) Nine Coaches Waiting (1958) My Brother Michael (1959) The Ivy Tree (1961) The Moon-Spinners (1962) This Rough Magic (1964) Airs Above the Ground (1965) The Gabriel Hounds (1967) The Wind Off the Small Isles (1968) The Little Broomstick (1971) Ludo and the Star Horse (1974) Touch Not the Cat (1976) A Walk in Wolf Wood (1980) Thornyhold (1988) Frost on the Window: And other Poems (1990) Stormy Petrel (1991) Rose Cottage (1997)

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