num_pages: 128
description: When, in 1850, the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. Thirty years later, Geneva Reade, the captain's ageing widow, was still waiting, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. Someone else was waiting, too, a sad lost man she called by the single name Seward, though she had known him by another name in happier days before the Amaryllis was lost. Into this seeming-mad and haunted situation comes at last another Geneva, called Jenny, the widow's granddaughter, to stay with her in her house on the beach. The three of them, Gran, Jenny, and the man Seward, are drawn into a kind of deadly game with each other and with the sea, a game that only the sea knows how to win. 
language: English
title: The Eyes Of The Amaryllis
titlecomplete: The Eyes Of The Amaryllis
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, School, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery
ratings_count: 946
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Chatto & Windus