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2019/41: The Brighton Mermaid -- Dorothy Koomson
Friday, May 3rd, 2019 06:47 am2019/41: The Brighton Mermaid -- Dorothy Koomson
The novel starts in 1993. Jude and Nell are teenage girls who've snuck out to go to a party. On their way home they find a dead woman, with a mermaid tattoo, on Brighton beach. This discovery changes their lives.
( slight spoilers )
That, for me, has always been the worst part of the Brighton Mermaid story, and the stories of the other mermaids: they were not treated as though they were human. ... They seemed to be just bodies. Things to talk about. Things to ponder and 'solve'. But not real humans who needed dignity and respect and consideration for simply having existed. Whatever happens next, I will not be 'just' a body that shows up or even that is never heard from again. Whatever happens next, people will know who I am. [loc 5065]
The novel starts in 1993. Jude and Nell are teenage girls who've snuck out to go to a party. On their way home they find a dead woman, with a mermaid tattoo, on Brighton beach. This discovery changes their lives.
( slight spoilers )
