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, reviewing the successes and failures of their public lives, as well as their secret history, in the process.
The heavy sea running made it necessary to get to windward, thus making a lee and drifting on to the raft. (A ship beam to wind will drift much faster than a waterlogged raft.) Lady M's stern just missed the raft, but a heaving line was ...
The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.
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The Sea Lady A Tissue of MoonshineBy Herbert George WellsThe Sea Lady A Tissue of Moonshine Herbert George Wells This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we ...
The Sea Lady
The Caribbean in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and into the eighteenth century, is under pirate rule.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
"This is a confident and sumptuously entertaining book, filled with the voice of Mr. O'Connor's native Ireland and composed with the sweep of the Atlantic's horizon.
David Lawrence-Young shows how the racy but cruel Georgian society treated the rich and famous while ignoring the fate of the downtrodden poor.About the Author:David Lawrence-Young has written over twenty historical novels which have been ...
Marcella Abbott can't believe it.