Ancestry : a novel
Mawer, Simon2023
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Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together?
Main title:
Ancestry : a novel / Simon Mawer.
Author:
Mawer, Simon, author
Imprint:
London : Abacus Books, 2023.
Collation:
414 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2022.
ISBN:
9780349144979 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
1194878
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