REMARKABLE CREATURES (PB)

Mary Anning may be young and uneducated, but she has “the eye”. Scouring the windswept Jurassic coast near Lyme Regis, she finds the fossils nobody else can, making discoveries that will shake the scientific world of the early 19th century. But there are many who disapprove. She finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot: unmarried, middle-aged and middle class, and a fellow fossil enthusiast. If they can weather differences in their age and standing, and overcome professional envy, will true friendship prove the rarest find of all?