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BOOK
Title The mermaid and Mrs Hancock : a history in three volumes / written by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Imprint London : Harvill Secker, 2018

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 Limhamn:Vuxen Romaner på engelska  Roman engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 488 pages ; 24 cm
Content Innehåll: Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Epilogue
Note 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?
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Shortlist
Subject Sjöjungfrur
Kurtisaner
Seafaring life -- Fiction
Mermaids -- Fiction
Courtesans -- Fiction
Seafaring life.
Mermaids.
Man-woman relationships.
Voyages and travels.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Humor
Romaner
Historiska skildringar
Classmark 823/.92
ISBN/ISSN 9781911215721 (hbk)
1911215728 (hbk)
9781911215738 (pbk)
1911215736 (pbk)
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