Remarkable Creatures

Author(s): Tracy Chevalier

BABIES & TODDLERS

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...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. 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. 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.


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'A stunning story, compassionately reimagined' Guardian 'Chevalier recently stated that making fossils sexy was one of her chief aims in writing Remarkable Creatures. With this very entertaining book, she has certainly succeeded' Daily Telegraph 'An enthralling novel of female friendship and fossil hunting' Woman and Home 'Chevalier shows her skill for working history's lost individuals into far-reaching fiction' Good Housekeeping

Tracy Chevalier is the author of five previous novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Virgin Blue, Falling Angels, The Lady and the Unicorn and Burning Bright. Born in Washington, DC, she moved in 1984 to London, where she lives with her husband and son. She is Chairman of the Society of Authors and has a website here.

General Fields

  • : 9780007178384
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.245
  • : June 2010
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : March 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tracy Chevalier
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 813.54
  • : oc2010009882
  • : 352
  • : FV