The Mermaid

Authors: Henry, Christina
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC009030, FIC010000
ISBN: 9780399584053, Related ISBNs: 0399584048, 0399584056, 0525596143, 0525596151, 9780399584046
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.

Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.

Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid.

Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he's determined to hold on to his mermaid.
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