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Sapphire’s life on the Cornwall coast is turned upside down when her father eludes the waves, leaving a void she fills with longing for his tall tales of the merfolk. The underwater realm of Ingo, guarded by mermen and mermaids, beckons her. As her brother Conor increasingly disappears for hours, Sapphire starts to suspect that the sea’s magnetism may be reaching beyond her, calling both of them into a mysterious, submerged kingdom where the boundaries between myth and reality blur.
First publish date: September 5, 2005
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Helen Dunmore
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