Tracy Chevalier

Remarkable Creatures is the latest book by Tracy Chevalier. Known for her historial fiction, with good characterization, she takes the story of two women at the beginning of the 19th century and weaves their story together in believable sequences. Mary Anning was a resident of Lyme Regis, a costal town on the shore of the English Channel in West Dorset, England. Her special gift was her abilty to invision the hidden parts of fossils on the costal cliffs. She is known for her discovery of the first complete pterodactyl in Great Britian. The name is now changed to a pterosaur. She was a villager, with a poor background, and her family would collect the "curies", a name given to the fossils which stood for curiosities as people then called them. The story is about her friendship with Elizabeth Philpot, a collector of fossils, a woman of a grander education and also a few years her senior. Both women lived in the Lyme Regis area, but this book is a work of fiction. Our Adult Book Discussion group at the the Tipp City Library will be diiscussing this book on Monday, June 27 at 7 pm. Feel free to join the discussion if you have read the book.  Lyme Regis today