- Editorial:
- PEEPAL TREE PRESS
- Materia
- General fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84523-457-7
THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCH : A LOVE STORY: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2020
ROFFEY, MONIQUE
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.