num_pages: 144
description: The setting is the seashore and as the author picks up shells she reflects how each symbolizes a facet of her development as a woman from young love to middle age and studies the ebb and flow of human relationships and upholds the importance of the free and individual spirit of woman and man.
language: English
title: Gift from the Sea
titlecomplete: Gift from the Sea
genres: Biography, Inspirational, Philosophy, Spirituality, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Classics, Self Help, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 49795
awards: awardedAt: -441820800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Chatto  Windus