The Realm of Shells
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Book Overview A delicately balanced novel of childhood secrets, hidden treasure and the lengths people will go to in order to protect - or discover - w...
A delicately balanced novel of childhood secrets, hidden treasure and the lengths people will go to in order to protect - or discover - what they deem valuable.
The Margate Shell Grotto really exists: a serpentine corridor decorated in swirling patterns using 50 varieties of shell, and whoever made it created an enigma that has puzzled historians and speliologists for generations. Though it has been suggested that the cave might be Phoenician in origin, the fact that most of the iconography is Egyptian and Eastern suggests a more recent, 19th century origin.
Fanny Newlove is new to Margate, the daughter of Evangelist parents and spurned by the local children as being from the 'sheers' - here, anywhere north of London is considered foreign territory. When her brother finds an entrance to a hidden grotto on land their father has been advised to buy, the discovery sets into motion events that will rock this outsider family.
The shells on the walls and the elaborate altar suggest a religious function - so why do the locals speak of buried treasure? And why does dour young writing master Davidson condemn shells as daemonic, upsetting Fanny's father's Christian sensibilities by invoking the Kabbalah's 'realm of shells', the basest plane of physical existence and hellish world of hidden devils?
As different people stake their claim to the grotto - including Fanny's father, whose principles have been outweighed by the lure of tourist money - Fanny will learn that in the adult world, the nature of value is never simple.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 240 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS 360 | ISBN: 0007184115
FormatPaperback
Pages240
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0007184115
EAN9780007184118
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS 360
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.5 Pounds
Length7.6 Inches
Width5.0 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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