Escape to the ocean with the entrancing unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4. PREORDER MONIQUE ROFFEYS NEW NOVEL PASSIONTIDE NOW On a quiet day near the Caribbean island of Black Conch a mermaid raises her barnacled head from the flat grey sea. She is attracted by David a fisherman waiting for a catch singing to himself with his guitar. Aycayia the mermaid has been living in the vast ocean all alone for centuries.When Aycayia is caught and dragged ashore by American tourists David rescues her with the aim of putting her back in the ocean. But it is soon clear that the mermaid is already transforming into a woman.This is the story of their love affair of an island and of the great wide sea.Mesmerising Maggie OFarrell author of The Marriage Portrait A unique talent Bernadine Evaristo author of Girl Women Other Not your standard mermaid Margaret Atwood author of The TestamentsVINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our everchanging relationship with the environment. These are stories old and young set in worlds real or imagined that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. Transformative wild surprising and essential these novels take on the most urgent story of our times.