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The mermaid and Mrs Hancock: a history in three volumes

โœ Scribed by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Publisher
HarperCollins;Harvill Secker
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
289 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0062859951

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โœฆ Synopsis

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. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Waters and Michael Faber . . . but The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock has more in common with the novels of Dickens and Austen." --Irish Times

In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature--and meets a most extraordinary woman--in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.

One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock...

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