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A young Englishwomanakin to a Jane Austen heroinetransforms the lives of a couple who has suffered tragic loss in this story of love and redemption Fourteen years after her death, the ghost of their baby daughter, Sarah, haunts world-famous playwright Emmanuel Joyce and his fragile, embittered wife, Lillian. They have each learned to cope in their own way: Emmanuel seduces his secretaries and Lillian keeps photos of her lost child on the dressing table of every hotel they visit. Theyre always on the move as they travel from city to city accompanied by Emmanuels orphaned, hero-worshipping manager, Jimmy. But now a minor crisis looms: Emmanuels latest secretary has taken a near-lethal dose of drugs on the eve of the Joyces departure for New York to cast his new play. They need to hire a replacement immediately. Enter stage right: Alberta Young. A clergymans daughter from Dorset, Alberta arrives for the interview clutching a copy of Middlemarch. She is unlike anyone Emmanuel, Lillian, or Jimmy has ever known. And little by little, she will transform all their lives. Narrated by four main characters, The Sea Change moves from London to New York to Athens and, finally, to the Greek island of Hydra. The bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles delivers a novel about learning to move beyond the past without giving up our memories, and how we can change and grow.
My current reads: The Sea Change is a buddy read with the darling@shawnmooney (our third Elizabeth Jane Howard that we‘ve read together) and High Wages is the December choice of the #PersephoneClub.
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