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William Morrow
March 2017
On Sale: March 7, 2017
Featuring: Kathleen; Harry
448 pages
ISBN: 0062560689
EAN: 9780062560681
Kindle: B01GZS3692
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Women's Fiction | Fantasy
A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen’s THE
LITTLE MERMAID, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a
spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a
descendant of the original mermaid fights the terrible price
of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations
of women in her family. Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the
bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On
her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the
sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can
find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most
powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of
seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that. Now Kathleen is a twenty-five-year-old opera student in
Boston and shows immense promise as a soprano. Her
girlfriend Harry, a mezzo in the same program, worries
endlessly about Kathleen's phantom pain and obsession with
the sea. Kathleen's mother and grandmother both committed
suicide as young women, and Harry worries they suffered from
the same symptoms. When Kathleen suffers yet another
dangerous breakdown, Harry convinces Kathleen to visit her
hometown in Ireland to learn more about her family history. In Ireland, they discover that the mystery—and the
tragedy—of Kathleen’s family history is far older and
stranger than they could have imagined. Kathleen’s fate
seems sealed, and the only way out is a terrible choice
between a mermaid’s two sirens—the sea, and her lover. But
both choices mean death… Haunting and lyrical, THE MERMAID'S DAUGHTER asks—how far we
will go for those we love? And can the transformative power
of music overcome a magic that has prevailed for generations?
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