| Author: | Ann Lingard | ISBN: | 9781843961635 |
| Publisher: | Littoralis Press | Publication: | August 2, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ann Lingard |
| ISBN: | 9781843961635 |
| Publisher: | Littoralis Press |
| Publication: | August 2, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history . . . Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; and malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson.
Their stories – of obsessional loves and conflicting beliefs – are inextricably linked with each other and with the life and tragic death of Victorian evangelist Emily Gosse, wife of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.
Seaside Pleasures ranges across time and geography, from Victorian Scotland to Africa in the 1960s and present-day England; the boundaries between fiction and fact become blurred, as the separate lives are woven together by the themes of shells and snails, science and religion, love and death – and the sea.
When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history . . . Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; and malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson.
Their stories – of obsessional loves and conflicting beliefs – are inextricably linked with each other and with the life and tragic death of Victorian evangelist Emily Gosse, wife of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.
Seaside Pleasures ranges across time and geography, from Victorian Scotland to Africa in the 1960s and present-day England; the boundaries between fiction and fact become blurred, as the separate lives are woven together by the themes of shells and snails, science and religion, love and death – and the sea.
