As for Wee Free Men, Tiffany's grandmother smoked Jolly Sailor tobacco, and a sou'westered sailor on the front of the packet became the way Tiffany learnt about the sea, even though she'd never actually seen it in her life. It's rather an important theme, because a) she later realises that the Chalk was once a sea-bed, so that the sea is actually buried deep in her cultural heritage, and b) she ends up in a dream-world based on the tobacco packet, in which the Sailor pursues a huge whale that is an incarnation of the Queen on her behalf.
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As for Wee Free Men, Tiffany's grandmother smoked Jolly Sailor tobacco, and a sou'westered sailor on the front of the packet became the way Tiffany learnt about the sea, even though she'd never actually seen it in her life. It's rather an important theme, because a) she later realises that the Chalk was once a sea-bed, so that the sea is actually buried deep in her cultural heritage, and b) she ends up in a dream-world based on the tobacco packet, in which the Sailor pursues a huge whale that is an incarnation of the Queen on her behalf.