"The Child From the Sea" by Elizabeth Goudge, published by Coward McCann, New York, 1970, copyright by the author. First US Book Club Edition issued one month after the first print of the 1st US trade edition.

Dust jacket with Book Club Edition imprinted on the front flap [a little edge wear]; hard boards with white-grayish lettering on spine, 5.3/4" x 8.3/4"; 598 pages, very good condition condition.

Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy- a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background- a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (1900-1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. In 1993 her book The Rosemary Tree was plagiarized by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the "new" novel set in India was warmly reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post before its source was discovered. In 2001 or 2002 J.K. Rowling identified 'The Little White Horse' as one of her favorite books and one of few with a direct influence on the Harry Potter series.

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