Tracy Chevalier’s novel, “Remarkable Creatures”, was published earlier this year in paperback. Philip Strange read Tracy Chevalier’s novel “Remarkable Creatures” set in Lyme Regis. I have reproduced the article in the Marshwood Vale Magazine below. People are beginning to treat the book as fact rather than fiction. He leads walks on the fossil rich coast around Lyme and is now regularly quizzed about the events in the book. Interestingly, I recently received an email from a Dorset-based fossil expert regarding the article. My concern was that, because there is actually very little real knowledge about the lives of these two women, the events fashioned by Chevalier may become reality for some people. In the book, Chevalier invents private lives for two real people, the Lyme Regis based fossil hunters Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot. I recently wrote about the book “Remarkable Creatures” by Tracy Chevalier expressing my concern that such historical fiction might influence what people remember. (from “1066 and all that” (Sellar and Yeatman)).
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