Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Description
I don’t remember there ever being a time when I weren’t out upon beach. Mam used to say the window was open when I was born, and the first thing I saw when they held me up was the sea.
Mary Anning may be young and uneducated, but she has “the eye”. Scouring the windswept Jurassic coast near Lyme Regis, she find the fossils nobody else can, making discoveries that will shake the scientific world of the early 19th century. But science is a male-dominated arena, and there are many who disapprove… She finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot: unmarried, middle-aged and middle class, and a fellow fossil enthusiast. If they can weather differences in their age and standing, and overcome professional envy, will true friendship prove the rarest find of all?
This book will be discussed at our meeting on 19 October 2026
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Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
- The Elopement, Gill Hornby
- The Land and it’s People, David Sedaris
- The Artist, Lucy Steeds
- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
- Land, Maggie O’Farrell
- The Housekeeper, Rose Tremain
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