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The sea lady : a late romance

A man who is a scholar in marine biology, and a woman who is a well-known feminist, grew up in the same English town on a northern sea to which they are travelling separately to attend a ceremony. In the past they had been a couple, but now that they are in their sixties will their older selves want to renew this relationship?

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  • "Een flamboyante feministe en een marine bioloog, die elkaar sinds hun kindertijd kennen, ontmoeten elkaar opnieuw als zestigers en rekenen af met het verraad in hun jeugd."
  • "Two distinguished guests are travelling separately toward a ceremony where they will meet for the first time in three decades. Both are apprehensive, as they review the successes and failures of their public life, and their secret history."
  • "A man who is a scholar in marine biology, and a woman who is a well-known feminist, grew up in the same English town on a northern sea to which they are travelling separately to attend a ceremony. In the past they had been a couple, but now that they are in their sixties will their older selves want to renew this relationship?"@en
  • "This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender and for her gift for lucid and dramatic exposition."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Feminist scholar and television pundit Ailsa Kelman and marine biologist Humphrey Clark, once childhood friends who have not seen each other since a brief, disastrous marriage in the 1960s, head back to the scene of their happy youth to attend an awards ceremony and find they have unresolved feelings for each other."
  • "Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, childhood friends, finds themselves reviewing their lives when they return to their home to receive honorary degrees from a new university."@en
  • "Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea, journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there; they both take stock of their lives over the past thirty years."
  • "Traveling separately to Ornemouth, England, a town by the North Sea where they had spent a summer together as children, Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman reassess the course of their individual lives and decisions over the past thirty years of separation."@en
  • "Two distinguished guests are travelling separately towards a ceremony where they will meet for the first time for over three decades. Both are apprehensive as they review the successes and failures of their lives, and their secret history. Humphrey and Ailsa met as children, by the grey northern sea to which they are returning. Humphrey had been drawn towards marine biology, but Ailsa was yet to transform into a dazzlingly flamboyant feminist celebrity. From their tangled relationship and their past careers, they are brought together again. What will they make of their past, and in what spirit will they be able to face the future?"

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Roman psychologique"
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  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"

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  • "The sea lady : a late romance"@en
  • "The sea lady : a late romance"
  • "The Sea lady : a late romance"
  • "La mer toujours recommencée : roman"
  • "The Sea Lady"@en
  • "The sea lady a late romance"
  • "The sea lady a late romance"@en
  • "The sea lady"
  • "The sea lady"@en

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