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Two distinguished guests are travelling separately toward a ceremony where they will meet for the first time in three decades.  Both are apprehensive, as they review the successes and failures of their public life, and their secret history . . . 

In The Sea Lady, a taut and elegiac novel, Margaret Drabble examines the ways in which place, chance, and time merge to make us what we are.

“Margaret Drabble is a writer of shining wit and splendid seriousness.” -- Alice Munro