The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock By Imogen Hermes Gowar
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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 AchillesIn 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 hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah?s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah?s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid. Jonah is stunned?the object the captain presents him is brown and wizened, as small as an infant, with vicious teeth and claws, and a torso that ends in the
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