Curiosity by Joan Thomas, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Curiosity by Joan Thomas, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Curiosity by Joan Thomas, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTIONA QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEARAward-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in nineteenth-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 forty years before the publication of The Origin of Species, twelve-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day. Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery—a giant fossil—he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met . . . | Curiosity by Joan Thomas, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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