If you’d be so kind, I’d appreciate a link back from your own post.Here, Dunmore returns to Zennor, the setting of her adult novel Darkness in Zennor.

Write a blog post about a book that you own that you haven’t read yet.

Want to participate in Shelf Control? Here’s how: Have you read Ingo, or anything else by this author? I’d love to hear reactions from anyone who’s actually read this book! I’d still like to give it a try one of these days, although it’ll have to be something truly special if I’m going to be interested enough to continue past the first book.

I’m sure the cover must have caught my eye, and I freely admit that I’m a sucker for a good mermaid story! I thought this was a stand-alone when I bought it (and maybe it was at the time), but I see on Goodreads that it’s actually the first in a five-book series. You never know what you’ll find when you do a bookshelf purge! As I pulled books off my over-crowded shelves, to be donated for the next library sale, this is one of the forgotten gems that suddenly appeared! I vaguely recall picking up a copy years ago. I bought it at some point - no idea when or where. In a novel full of longing, mystery, and magic, Helen Dunmore takes us to a new world that has the power both to captivate and to destroy. But when her brother, Conor, starts disappearing for hours on end, Sapphy starts to believe she might not be the only one who hears the call of the ocean. Perhaps that is why she imagines herself being pulled like a magnet toward the sea. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Sapphire’s father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. I wish I was away in Ingo, Far across the sea, Sailing over the deepest waters, Where love nor care can trouble me… What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) : See the guidelines at the bottom of the post, and jump on board! Want to join in? Shelf Control posts go up every Wednesday. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! For more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.

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Ingo by Helen Dunmore