# The Sea Lady

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- Authors: [Margaret Drabble](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-drabble)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-08-02

## Description

Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. Half a lifetime passes before Humphrey and Ailsa's paths finally re-cross. What will each make of their past? And of the future? The Sea Lady tells the a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives.

## Editions

### The Sea Lady

- Publisher: canongate
- ISBN: 978-18-3885-972-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2023-07-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Sea Lady

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-745-6
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2007-08-02
- Language: en_GB