The Sea Lady

Name: The Sea Lady
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Margaret Drabble
ISBN: 9780670916498

Margaret Drabble

03/08/2006
Fig Tree

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Couverture de The Sea Lady par Margaret Drabble

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Two distinguished guests are travelling separately towards a ceremony where they will meet for the first time for three decades. Both are apprehensive, as they review the successes and failures of their public life, and their secret history. Humphrey and Ailsa met as children, by the grey Northern sea to which they are returning. Humphrey was already a serious child, drawn towards the underwater world of marine biology, but there were as yet few signs of Ailsa's dazzling transformation into a flamboyant feminist celebrity. The novel traces the evolution of their careers and their passionately entangled relationship, and brings them together again to see what they will make of their past, and in what spirit they will be able to face the future. In this taut and elegiac novel, Margaret Drabble examines the ways in which place, chance and time merge to make us what we are. Biographie de l'auteur Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at Cambridge. She was awarded a CBE in 1980. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989) and The Gales of Victory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2000), The Seven Sisters (2002)and The Red Queen (2004) all of which are published by Penguin. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London W10.