The mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Subtitle: a history in three volumes
By: written by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781911215721; 9781911215738
Subjects: Mermaids; Voyages and travels; Man-woman relationships; Seafaring life; Fiction
Description: This voyage is special. It will change everything ... One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on ... and a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course, on which they will learn that priceless things come at the greatest cost. Where will their ambitions lead? And will they be able to escape the destructive power mermaids are said to possess?
Table of contents: title: Volume I; title: Volume II; title: Volume III; title: Epilogue.