The Sea Lady (OM) - Softcover

Drabble, Margaret

3.24

698 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141033037 ISBN 13: 9780141033037

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

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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 biology, but there were as yet few signs of Ailsa’s dazzling transformation into a flamboyant feminist celebrity. The novel traces the evolution of their careers and their passionately entangled relationship, and brings them together again to see what they will make of their past, and in what spirit they will be able to face the future. In this taut and elegiac novel, Margaret Drabble examines the ways in which place, chance and time merge to make us what we are.

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Review:

A pleasure to read . . . utterly engrossing (Guardian)

'The Sea Lady proves [Drabble] remains one of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around.' FT magazine

Drabble excels at describing the minute detail of human behaviour...The Sea Lady is a potent tribute to lost dreams and harsh realities. (The Independent)

An intelligent, full-bodied, big-hearted book (Daily Mail)

From the Back Cover:

Advance Praise for The Sea Lady

It is a pleasure to read The Sea Lady 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, The Guardian
[A] dense, fascinating novel Drabble writes beautifully about the passing of time and the sad, incomplete experience of human love. The New Statesman
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. Booklist (starred)
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