The Sea Lady

Margaret Drabble

first published 2006 FIG TREE, 2006 344 pages

"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 bio...

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Sea Lady edition · 2023 · Canongate Books · 9781838859725
Sea Lady edition · 2023 · Canongate Books · 9781838859732
The Sea Lady paperback · 2008 · Emblem Editions · 352 pages · 9780771029097
Sea Lady edition · 2008 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 352 pages · 9780547544564
The Sea Lady paperback · 2008 · Harvest Books · 352 pages · 9780156034265
Sea Lady edition · 2008 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299883635
Sea Lady edition · 2007 · Penguin Books, Limited · 352 pages · 9780141027456
The sea lady edition · 2007 · Charnwood · 428 pages · 9781846177293
The Sea Lady hardcover · 2007 · Thorndike Press · 533 pages · 9780786296354
The Sea Lady edition · 2007 · Harcourt · 352 pages · 9780151012633
The Sea Lady edition · 2007 · Penguin Books Ltd · 9780141033037
Sea Lady edition · 2006 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780670916504

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