The Sea Lady

This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender and for her gift for lucid and dramatic exposition. The memories of their lives unfold as Margaret Drabble exquisitely details the social life in England in the second half of the last century.

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/12/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.44w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780156034265

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/15/2008 pg. 24

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.