‘Unsettling and strange, Sea Change, cements Nathan’s reputation as one of our most interesting historical novelists.’ The TimesAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4’I’ll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.’The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from the basket of a rising balloon. A wilful, lonely orphan in the house of her erratic artist guardian, Eve struggles to retain the image of her missing mother and the father she never knew. In a London beset by pageantry, incipient riot and the fear of Napoleonic invasion, Eve must grow into a young woman with no one to guide her through its perils.Far away, in a Norfolk fishing village, the Rev Snead preaches hellfire and damnation to his impoverished parishioners and oppressed wife. Snead illustrates his sermons with the example of a mute woman pulled from the sea, over whom he keeps a very close watch indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘I’ll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.’ The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from the basket of a rising balloon. A wilful, lonely orphan in the house of her erratic artist guardian, Eve struggles to retain the image of her missing mother and the father she never knew. In a London beset by pageantry, incipient riot and the fear of Napoleonic invasion, Eve must grow into a young woman with no one to guide her through its perils. Far away, in a Norfolk fishing village, the Rev. Snead preaches hellfire and damnation to his impoverished parishioners and oppressed wife. Snead illustrates his sermons with the example of a mute woman pulled from the sea, over whom he keeps a very close watch indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[128,69,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-94293","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-fiction-related-items","7":"product_tag-historical-fiction","8":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction-post-c-1945","9":"pa_book_author-nathan-alix","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","12":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","13":"pa_imprint-serpents-tail","14":"pa_language-english","15":"pa_pages-8847","16":"pa_publisher-serpents-tail","17":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n