Publisher's Synopsis
Rescued from a shipwreck at the age of four, Joseph Daw is taken as an unpaid servant by a family of smugglers from Turvey, a townland in north County Dublin close to the village of Donabate. Despite a life of hardship and cruelty, he grows up to be a quiet and honest youth, very different from his masters. But, just as he finds the courage to escape, he chances to witness an event that changes everything, and not for the better.