The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

**Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction** **"Wonderful... completely transporting."****-- Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles** **"Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . .

Once there was a fisherman who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. One evening he pulled up his net and found a woman in it. A woman with black hair and eyes as grey as a stormy sea and a gleaming fish's ta

Once there was a fisherman who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. One evening he pulled up his net and found a woman in it. A woman with black hair and eyes as grey as a stormy sea and a gleaming fish's ta