Imogen Hermes Gowar Mrs Hancock & the Mermaid by Harvill

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This book is being hailed as this years Essex Serpent. The debut novel from Imogen Hermes Gowar is set in Georgian England and has as its most obvious forebear Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. It mixes 18th Century realism with magical realism with the mermaid of the book title being used as a symbol of human sexual failing.

13 GBP