Sea Change. First Printing. Signed by the Author. Special Issue

Nathan, Alix

ISBN 10: 1788163508 / ISBN 13: 9781788163507

Published by London. Serpent's Tail/Profile Books Ltd, 2021

About this Item

London. Serpent's Tail/Profile Books Ltd. 2021. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Mid blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Small mark at the bottom of the upper board and a touch of creasing to the spine head ; otherwise the book is fine. Attractive moss green endpapers. 'Signed By the Author' page in the prelims flat signed by the author without dedication to a paste down plate. Dust wrapper is fine with no signs of wear. The author's fourth novel. A wilful, lonely orphan in the house of her erratic artist guardian, Eve struggles to retain the image of her missing mother and the father she never knew. In a London beset by pageantry, incipient riot and the fear of Napoleonic invasion, Eve must grow into a young woman with no one to guide her through its perils. Far away, in a Norfolk fishing village, the Rev Snead preaches hellfire and damnation to his impoverished parishioners and oppressed wife.

Seller Inventory # JUN07.22013

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sea Change. First Printing. Signed by the Author. Special Issue
• Publisher: London. Serpent's Tail/Profile Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788163508
• ISBN 13: 9781788163507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction, children, historical, signed, first

About this title

Synopsis

The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from the basket of a rising balloon. A wilful, lonely orphan in the house of her erratic artist guardian, Eve struggles to retain the image of her missing mother and the father she never knew. In a London beset by pageantry, incipient riot and the fear of Napoleonic invasion, Eve must grow into a young woman with no one to guide her through its perils. Far away, in a Norfolk fishing village, the Rev Snead preaches hellfire and damnation to his impoverished parishioners and oppressed wife. Snead illustrates his sermons with the example of a mute woman pulled from the sea, over whom he keeps a very close watch indeed.

About the Author

Alix Nathan's novel The Warlow Experiment was a Sunday Times fiction book of the year. Her short stories have been published in Ambit, the London Magazine and New Welsh Review. She lives in Shropshire where she owns some ancient woodland with her husband.