The Seal WomanPortrait of a widow in mourning by one of Australia's most important women writers The Seal Woman was first published to acclaim in 1992 but has been out of print for many years. The novel explores the mind of a middle aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon. Farmer's prose is marked by the suppleness of its language, and