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| Author/Contributor(s): | Thomas, Joan |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| Date: | 2/1/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION
A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science inthis stunning novel set in nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, England—
the seaside town thatis the setting of both The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
More than forty years before the publication of The Origin of Species, twelve-year-oldMary Anning, a cabinet-maker’s daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoricdolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near LymeRegis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incrediblewoman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day.
Henry de la Beche wasthe son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spenthis childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college,and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, wherehe pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of thearea. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery—a giant fossil—he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met . . .
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