Castors Away
Hester Burton
Paperback
(Dell Publishing, June 15, 1971)
Life for the Henchman family is exciting in its quiet way--picnics, visits to the farm, spats with their maiden aunt--until Nell finds on the beach the body of a young soldier who has apparently drowned. Through an extraordinary effort the Henchmans bring the soldier back o life and , unwittingly, bring themselves into the wider world of an England rallying against Napoleon in the devastating naval battle of Trafalgar.