The Deep
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Orange Prize–winning author Helen Dunmore has turned the undersea world of the Mer people into the one of the hottest phenomena in today’s children’s literature. Ingo and its follow-up, The Tide Knot, introduced us to the darkly fantastical story of Sapphy and Conor, two siblings caught between the intoxicating parallel ocean world of the Mer and their family home in a village by the edge of the sea. In this third mesmerizing tale, a devastating flood has ripped through both worlds, Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring and demanding his due. Mer legend dictates that only those with mixed-blood—half Mer and half human—can conquer the Kraken. So Sapphy must return to the deep, and with the help of Conor, her Mer friend Faro and a whale, she faces a struggle that will test her like no other.
Magically blending a lyrical, haunting style with a plot that rides a continual wave of suspense, Dunmore has crafted another novel
where fantasy and reality, the land and the sea, and childhood and growing up intersect in a captivating read for kids and adults alike.
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Author Extras
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The Tide Knot
There’s a current racing ahead, the colour of the darkest blue velvet. We plunge forward. The current is so strong that it crushes me. I’m jolting, juddering, struggling in its grip, but I can’t break away. It’s got me, like a cat with a bird in its claws. Bestselling British...
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Ingo
Watch a video trailer for Ingo (Requires Flash Player. May take a few minutes to load.) When Sapphire was little, her father told her a legend about a mermaid and a man. Neither could live apart from the other, and one night the man swam down to his Mer love and was never seen again. Oddly, the...
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