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Jan 20, 2012jstricklen rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed the reading and the accents used by the narrators. Overall, I very much enjoyed the story of Mary Anning and her remarkable success. I have to agree with some other critics that the book put too much emphasis on Elizabeth Philpot's perspective and treated Mary as somewhat immature. I honestly don't know what she was like, but I suspect that she was much more capable in worldly matters than the book implies. A very good story, one that really dragged me in and made me sympathetic to the characters. I was very saddened to learn that Mary died of breast cancer at a young age. (The book ends before this, so I didn't give anything away).