The Mermaid of Black Conch
Author(s): Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey is a unique talent and most daring and versatile of writers' - Bernardine EvaristoMarch 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries. And she is entranced by this man David and his song.
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Winner - 2020 Costa Book of the Year and Costa Novel Award
General Fields
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- : Peepal Tree Press, Limited
- : Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- : 31 January 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : Monique Roffey
- : Paperback
- : 2004
- : English
- : 188