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<p><b>'Unsettling and strange, <i>Sea Change</i>, cements Nathan's reputation as one of our most interesting historical novelists.' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4</b><b><i><br><br>'I'll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.'</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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>