But not only is Sapphy intoxicated by the Mer world, she longs to see her father once more.
He pleads with her to ignore her craving for the sea and stay safely in their cottage up on the cliff. Ingo blood runs strongly in Sapphy and Conor fears she will leave the Air world for good. After her first visit she is entranced - merely the sound of running water makes her yearn to be in Ingo once more. She must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea and all things Mer. He takes her to Ingo and introduces her to a world she never knew existed. She goes to the cove to find him, but instead meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Merman. The following summer her brother Conor keeps disappearing for hours on end. When he is lost at sea she can't help but think of that old myth she's convinced he's still alive. He became one of the Mer people! Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn't come to live with him up in the dry air. You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea. This is a spellbinding magical adventure. Sapphire and her brother Conor live an idyllic life in Cornwall until Conor starts disappearing for hours on end - Who is the mysterious girl he talks to on the rocks in the cove near their cottage? When Sapphire follows him down to the cove, she discovers a strange and dangerous world she never knew existed
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