When the book opens, Penelope is 64 and recovering from a heart attack. It’s about Penelope Keeling, who grew up in Cornwall in the early 1900s, the daughter of a famous artist (who painted the titular Shell Seekers). It’s one of those books that is hard to describe the plot. When I was little I thought the title was so odd, and the cover so ugly, but I always remembered it.Īll these years later, when I saw the White Whale category on this year’s Bingo, I immediately thought of The Shell Seekers and requested it from the library. The Shell Seekers, in all its 80s floral and embossed glory, was one of the books that was kept in this room, and one I always remember seeing it as I was dusting, but I never opened it or read the inside cover. One of my chores as a child was to dust this room. It was wider than a normal hallway, and lined with bookshelves that were filled with both books and pictures. When I was a kid, our house had a hallway that ran between the living room and my parents’ bedroom.
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