Sydney Cove

Sydney Cove by J.H.M. Abbott is about Patrick Cartwright of the Marines and his uncle, Colonel Jack Cartwright as they walk the Magnus Hall gardens. Excerpt: «NOT far from the ancient cathedral city of Rochester, and the war-like town of Chatham, there still stands an old, square, red-brick mansion in a lovely garden. Gardens in Kent are always lovely, but the garden of Magnus Hall, stretching down its gentle hillside to the waters of the Medway…»