
Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England -- the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion . More than 40 years before...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION
A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science...

Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England - the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion . More than 40 years before...