Ingo: The Ingo Chronicles #1

Stunning anniversary edition of this magical and award-winning novel - the first of the spellbinding Ingo Chronicles…

Once there was a man who fell in love with a mermaid. He swam down into the sea to be with her, and was never seen again …When Sapphire's father is lost at sea, she can't help thinking of the mermaid stories he told her when she was little.Then Sapphy meets a new friend, Faro, who shows her Ingo, a magical underwater world where the Mer live.As Sapphy spends more time below the waves, she becomes convinced she will find her father in Ingo, but will she have to give up the Air world for good?

About the author

Helen Dunmore is an award-winning novelist and poet as well as a children's writer. She has published eight collections of poetry, and has written nine novels and two collections of short stories. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, and her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Her latest novel, Counting the Stars, is published in February 2008.