A View of the Harbour – 4/5 stars In this smallish novel, we visit a seaside town in southern England in years briefly after WWII. We get a whole cast of different characters, a local artist, a local writer, a single mother, a war widow, a doctor, and town drunk, and various other figures that come and go into the narrative. There is not a story as such, so much as how the various figures in the town interplay, interact and go about their business. […]