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Isabelle, abandoned in infancy, toils at vile Mr. Magnificent Supreme's umbrella factory and bunks at a terrible boarding house run by a greedy landlady in a grey, dreary town called Runny Cove where it rains 24/7. She seems doomed to continue this existence 'til the end of her days until one afternoon, while walking along the shore, a sea monster delivers her an apple. This sets in motion big changes in Isabelle's life- it turns out the sea monster was actually an elephant seal and even better
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