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When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House, he little guesses that he's about to step into the minefield of his family's past and recent history ... Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; and biologist Elizabeth Wilson: their stories - of obsessional loves and conflicting beliefs - are inextricably linked with each other and with the life and tragic death of Victorian evangelist Emily Gosse. 'Seaside Pleasures' ranges across time and geography, from Victorian Scotland to Africa in the 1960s and contemporary England; the boundaries between fiction and fact become blurred, as the separate lives are woven together by the themes of shells and snails, science and religion, love and death - and the sea.
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Jane Gardam: "A big book with a MIND behind it!"
Anne Thwaite: "Immensely readable and extremely clever, Seaside Pleasures is a remarkable novel .. the blend of past and present, fact and fiction, is both curious and compelling."
Matt Ridley: " A very fine piece of writing that, uniqely among modern novels, makes real use of science rather than wearing science on its sleeve. Tremendously good plot, story and narrative style, fascinating history and even better science - a true two-culture achievement."
North Devon Journal: ".. a thoughtful compelling story, a very human account. The book is a rockpool itself, concealing seaside secrets as well as pleasures deep beneath the surface."
From the Author:
Anne Thwaite: "Immensely readable and extremely clever, Seaside Pleasures is a remarkable novel .. the blend of past and present, fact and fiction, is both curious and compelling."
Matt Ridley: " A very fine piece of writing that, uniqely among modern novels, makes real use of science rather than wearing science on its sleeve. Tremendously good plot, story and narrative style, fascinating history and even better science - a true two-culture achievement."
North Devon Journal: ".. a thoughtful compelling story, a very human account. The book is a rockpool itself, concealing seaside secrets as well as pleasures deep beneath the surface."
More information and images, for Seaside Pleasures and Ann Lingard's other novels can be found on her website, annlingard.com and on solwayshorestories.co.uk
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- PublisherLittoralis Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 095445720X
- ISBN 13 9780954457204
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages420
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