An accomplished student and heiress to a great title, Genevieve has been brought up as a Proper Young Lady, carefully instructed in the Covenants. She must soon take up the time-honoured responsibilities of womanhood: that is to marry a nobleman of her father's choosing and bear a child at the age of thirty. But Genevieve remembers all the stories and the secret knowledge learned from her mother, now long dead, and she yearns to heed the call of the sea -- though she has never even seen the vast waters that cover most of the surface of her home planet of Haven. And she begins to uncover bitter truths about the seemingly backward planet of Haven ...
- ISBN10 1857987497
- ISBN13 9781857987492
- Publish Date 8 March 2001 (first published 22 April 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 September 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 544
- Language English