| Italic Title: | Green Dolphin Street |
| Green Dolphin Street or Green Dolphin Country | |
| Author: | Elizabeth Goudge |
| Title Orig: | Green Dolphin Street |
| Cover Artist: | Martin Sale |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Coward-McCann (US) |
| Pub Date: | 1944 |
Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944. The novel was adapted to a 1947 film.[1] The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming.[2]
In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne.[3] He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister. When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success.[4] After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands. [5]