Remarkable Creatures: A Novel

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A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an strange time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, creator of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring.

At the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: “the eye” to spot fossils no person else can see. When she uncovers an ordinary fossilized skeleton within the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an inconceivable man.

Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but in the long run seems to be their greatest asset.

Remarkable Creatures is a stunning historical novel that follows the story of two strange 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world perpetually.


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