ingo by helen dunmore
Sapphire and her brother Connor have lost their father to the sea. But no one knows what happened to him. At the beginning of this book. Sapphire’s father tells her the story of the Mermaid of Zennor. Many years ago, the mermaid fell in love with Mathew Trewhella, and he chose to abandon his life to live with her in the Mer kingdom of Ingo. Mathew Trewhella is also her father’s name. When their father disappears on his fishing boat one calm night, everything changes for the family. The villagers accepted the death of Mathew Trewhella after several attempts of searching around town, but Sapphire and Connor don’t. Did their father drowned? Did he run away with another woman or did he to abandon his life to live with her in the Mer like the fairy tale that use to tell Sapphire?