The Mermaid of Black Conch

Author(s): Monique Roffey

Novel | Caribbean

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.

March 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, 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

  • : 9781845234577
  • : Peepal Tree Press, Limited
  • : Peepal Tree Press Ltd
  • : February 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Monique Roffey
  • : Paperback
  • : 2004
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 188