En cours de chargement...
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. On a September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. 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, where he meets Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on...
What will be the cost of their ambitions ? And will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess ?
Chimeras and Mermaid
On a September evening in 1785, one of Hancock's captains has come to find him with a treasure, a wonder for which he sold one of his vessels. Words spread fast that the merchant Jonah Hancock got himself a mermaid. This mermaid will open for him all the doors of London and the most mundane festivities which had been closed to him until now.
In one of those parties, Hancock will meet Angelica Neal making two complete opposite clashes against one another.
Beware of your ambitions, your most intimate desires, your longing because they do not always lead to a better place.