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Curiosity
[Paperback - 2011]
joan thomas
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Fiction
Additional Category: Women Fiction - Historical Romance
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771084188 | Pages: 416
Shipping Weight: .363 | Dimensions: 5.24 x 1.06 x 7.96 inches

Description

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION
A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Award-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 . . .

About the Author

JOAN THOMAS’s debut novel, Reading By Lightning (2008), won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Curiosity, her second novel, was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Joan has worked as a teacher, group-home worker, editor, and as the Writing and Publishing consultant at the Manitoba Arts Council. She was a books columnist and longtime contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail, and in 1996 won a National Magazine Award (Silver) for Creative Non-Fiction. Joan's other works include The Opening Sky and Five Wives. Joan lives in Winnipeg. Visit her website at www.joanthomas.ca.

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