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Penguin, Melbourne, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. the lower left-hand corner of the rear panel has been creased. There is no other damage to report. 2 distinguished guests are travelling separately towards a ceremony where they will meet for the first time for 3 decades. Both are apprehensive as they review the successes and failures of their public life, and their secret history. First softcover edition. Size: Trade Paperback. 345 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0670916501. ISBN/EAN: 9780670916504. Inventory No: 0246396. . 9780670916504
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- Title The Sea Lady
- Author Drabble, Margaret
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Penguin, Melbourne
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9780670916504
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Fig Tree / Penguin, Australia, 2006. Softcover. Very Good Condition. It is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, now in their sixties and traveling--separately--to receive honorary degrees from a university in Ornemouth, a town on the North Sea. They met in Ornemouth when they were children, spent one summer together along with a local boy, Sandy Clegg, and Ailsa's brother, Tommy. It was that kind of summer which, however brief, has a bearing on the rest of one's life. Humphrey Clark's introduction to the sea sets him on his career path. Newly minted personalities were coming into being, the cruelty of children was all around, every moment was writ large in the minds of all of them, especially Humphrey.Now, more than 50 years have passed and both Ailsa and Humphrey are reminiscing--Ailsa, typically, on an airplane, and Humphrey, just as typically, on a train. Their accounts of the last 50-plus years are unsparing, recounting their successes and failures, the places…
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