Ingo by Helen Dunmore, ISBN 9780007204885

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You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn't come to live with him up in the dry air. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. He became one of the Mer people

Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. When he is lost at sea she can't help but think of that old myth; she's convinced he's still alive.

The following summer her brother Conor keeps disappearing for hours on end. She goes to the cove to find him, but instead meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Merman. He takes her to Ingo and introduces her to a world she never knew existed. She must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea and all things Mer.

After her first visit she is entranced merely the sound of running water makes her yearn to be in Ingo once more. Ingo blood runs strongly in Sapphy and Conor fears she will leave the Air world for good. He pleads with her to ignore her craving for the sea and stay safely in their cottage up on the cliff.

But not only is Sapphy intoxicated by the Mer world, she longs to see her father once more. And she's sure she can hear him singing across the water I wish I was away in Ingo Far across the briny sea

Ages: 10-14

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About the Author: Helen Dunmore

Helen was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children.
She studied English at the University of York, and after graduating taught English as a foreign language in Finland. At around this time she began to write the poems which formed her first poetry collection, The Apple Fall. During the 1980s and early 1990s she taught poetry and creative writing, tutored writing courses and took part in the Poetry Society's Writer in Schools scheme, as well as giving readings and workshops in schools, hospitals, prisons and every other kind of place where a poem could conceivably be welcome.
Helen also taught undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education courses at the University of Glamorgan, the University of Bristol's Continuing Education Department and for the Open College of the Arts.
Helen was Chair of the Society of Authors 2005-2006, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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