The Sea Lady - by Margaret Drabble (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Advance Praise for <i>The Sea Lady <br></i><br> It is a pleasure to read <i>The Sea Lady</i> and find again the canny, cagey, unfooled, intransigent author of The Needle s Eye Drabble s generous and unsentimental truthfulness to the condition of childhood is very rare. Ursula Le Guin, <i>The Guardian</i> <br> [A] dense, fascinating novel Drabble writes beautifully about the passing of time and the sad, incomplete experience of human love. <i>The New Statesman</i> <br> But for all its dark knowledge, oceanic psychology, and spiny social critique, Drabble s novel is as scintillating as a sunny day on board a fast-moving sailboat on the life-sustaining sea. <i>Booklist</i> (starred) <br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>PRAISE FOR <i>THE SEA LADY</i> <p/><i></i> <p/>[A] tour de force . . . With lyrical originality Drabble captures the idealistic, eternally self-absorbed paradoxes of the aging baby-boom generation. The result, like its contradictory protagonists, is as sensual as a moonlit beach, as bracing as an offshore wind.--<i>People </i>(4 stars) <p/> <p/>A thoroughly enchanting blend of scientific erudition, social satire and domestic comedy from a novelist who continues to surprise us.--Ron Charles, <i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br>
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