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The Shrimp and the Anemone

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The Shrimp and the Anemone - Hartley, L.P.
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There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepool among the rocks on a Norfolk beach during the summer holidays. A shadow begins to be cast over the children's innocent conversations and gaucherie, revealing their anxieties about themselves, and the constraints of their cosseted lives, as the outside world - of other children, dancing lessons, adults, ...

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The Shrimp and the Anemone 2000, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571203826

FF Classics

Mass-market paperback