Ancestry: A Novel
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The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished
forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious
land. Who were the people who populated it? 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? Simon Mawer's compelling
and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them
to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are
gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of
Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days
of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is
birth and death, there is love, both open and legal but also hidden
and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures
is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of
family.
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