Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0007178387 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0007178387 Global Overview for this book
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Amazon Synopsis:
A stunning novel of female friendship, forbidden love and evolution from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye…
Then – in prickly, clever Elizabeth Philpot, a fossil-obsessed middle-class spinster – she finds a champion, and a rival. Despite their differences in class and age, Mary and Elizabeth’s loyalty and passion for the truth must win out.
From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange fossilized creatures in the cliffs of Lyme Regis sets the world alight. But Mary must face powerful prejudice from a male scientific establishment, not to mention vicious gossip and the heartbreak of forbidden love.
Remarkable Creatures is a stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.
A stunning novel of female friendship, forbidden love and evolution from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye…
Then – in prickly, clever Elizabeth Philpot, a fossil-obsessed middle-class spinster – she finds a champion, and a rival. Despite their differences in class and age, Mary and Elizabeth’s loyalty and passion for the truth must win out.
From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange fossilized creatures in the cliffs of Lyme Regis sets the world alight. But Mary must face powerful prejudice from a male scientific establishment, not to mention vicious gossip and the heartbreak of forbidden love.
Remarkable Creatures is a stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.
Released 11 yrs ago (6/5/2012 UTC) at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom
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Released to a fellow BCer, as part of the Historical Fiction Exchange!
Thank you, Anne-Elliott! I just recently read Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and liked it very much so I'm truly looking forward to starting this.
Interesting historical fiction. I really enjoyed this book about two women fossil collectors. On Poobah1's wishlist, so sending it off for her to enjoy too.
Received this in the mail today as a surprise RABCK all the way from sunny California. What a nice surprise, stringofpearls! Thank you very much and I do look forward to reading this historical fiction.
