The story is a simple one; Davis Moss befriends Adam Codling, youngest member of a fallen family of aristocrats, and they spend their summer on the River Say, seeking the lost Codling treasure so that Adam’s fortunes might be restored and a disastrous move to Birmingham averted. They have only a four-line poem written in the days of the Armada and Adam’s canoe, the eponymous Minnow, to help them. The quest must take place in secret, too, not only because old family feuds threaten to surface but because there are others who seek the same prize as they. (from Jon Berry’s review of ‘Minnow on the Say’)