Sea Change by Alix Nathan

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By Alix Nathan. London 1802. A balloon flight celebrates the Peace of Amiens.

By Alix Nathan. London 1802. Sarah is on board a balloon that takes flight to celebrate the Peace of Amiens.

England is beset by social unrest and the threat of Napoleonic invasion. Parted following a freakish accident, Sarah Battle and her daughter Eve try to rediscover each other.

With her mother widely believed to be dead, Eve is raised by Sarah’s erratic artist friend Joseph in London. Sarah - traumatised in mind and body - must rebuild herself in a Norfolk fishing village at the parsonage of the strangely-motivated Reverend Snead.

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London 1802. Sarah is on board a balloon that takes flight to celebrate the Peace of Amiens.

Alix Nathan is the author of His Last Fire, a collection of short stories, and the novels The Flight Of Sarah Battle and The Warlow Experiment.

Writer: Alix Nathan
Reader: Samantha Spiro
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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Separated by a freakish accident, a mother and daughter try to find each other again.

Separated by accident in an England beset by social unrest and the threat of Napoleonic invasion, Sarah Battle and her daughter Eve try to find each other. Reader, Samantha Spiro.

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