Sea Lady: A Late Romance

Margaret Drabble

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Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Book Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publish Date: May 12nd, 2008
Pages: 368
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.44in - 0.92in - 0.74lb
EAN: 9780156034265
Categories: • Literary• Romance - Collections & Anthologies• Historical - General

About the Author

Drabble, Margaret: -

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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PRAISE FOR MARGARET DRABBLE

"Reading Margaret Drabble's novels has become something of a rite of passage . . . Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love."--THE WASHINGTON POST

"As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh."--LOS ANGELES TIMES --