The Tide Knot

Informationen zum Autor HELEN DUNMORE is a novelist! short story writer and poet. She has written twenty-two children’s books! including Brother Brother! Sister Sister ; The Lilac Tree ; The Seal Cove ; and the bestselling Ingo series. She has written nine adult books including A Spell of Winter ! which won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her poetry collections have won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Signal Poetry Award. Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire! England! and now lives in Bristol with her husband and children. Klappentext In a breathtaking follow-up to her critically acclaimed novel "Ingo!" Dunmore returns to the extraordinary kingdom under the sea! where humans Sapphire and Conor have learned that Mer blood runs through their veins. They soon discover the underwater world holds dangerous secrets. Zusammenfassung In a seaside town of sandy beaches and ocean breezes! Sapphy has never felt so far from the sea. The crowded shore at St. Pirans is nothing like the cove at Sapphy's old home! where she first found her way into the underwater world of Ingo. But Ingo's pull is strong! and it always finds a way. Soon Sapphy and her brother! Conor! are swimming beneath the waves again! riding the currents and teasing their Mer friend Faro. As Sapphy goes deeper into Ingo! she learns to feel more at home in the sea—even as she begins to be aware of its dangers. There's the danger of going in too deep! and breaking the delicate balance between Sapphy's life on land and her life in Ingo. There's the mysterious disappearance of Sapphy's father! an experienced sailor who should never have drowned. And then there's Ingo itself—a restless power as old as the world! as strong as the tides! and more dangerous than anything Sapphy has ever known.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Dunmore
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780060818555
• ISBN: 978-0-06-081855-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Ingo; Ingo
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Siblings *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Action & Adventure / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Girls & Women *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Historical / Europe *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Paranormal *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: People & Places / Europe *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Stepfamilies *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Action & Adventure / Pirates *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Coming of Age *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Historical *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Parents *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Romance