Bibliograph

The sea lady, a late romance, Margaret Drabble

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The sea lady, a late romance, Margaret Drabble

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The sea lady

Oclc number

49731070687428

Responsibility statement

Margaret Drabble

Sub title

a late romance

Summary

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.

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