num_pages: 345
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?
language: English
title: The Sea Lady
titlecomplete: The Sea Lady
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Feminism, British Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 691
places: North East England, London, England
publisher: Penguin