The Sea Lady

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey northern sea in post-war Britain. She freckled and furious; he quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. . Now after thirty years apart and at the close of the 20th century their lives are converging once again as they hurtle towards each other by plane and train - their motivations regrets and decisions laid bare.. With the gloriously astute eye that Margaret Drabble is celebrated for The Sea Lady is an account of first and last love; of the lapping of time at our ankles gradually eroding and shaping our lives.