Down by the Sea

{{Short description|1956 novel}}

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| author = Walter Greenwood

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Drama

| publisher = Hutchinson

| release_date = 1956

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Down by the Sea is a 1956 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.Woods p.149 It is the final entry of a trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall.Hopkins p.247 Durrall, the principal protagonist of the previous novel marries a woman and is able to prosper by opening his cottage as a tea house for tourists.

It was his penultimate published novel, followed by the Manchester-set Saturday Night at the Crown in 1959.