MEET ME AT THE SURFACE

Kimberley Ballard

RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Jodie Matthews Publisher Fourth Estate In this debut novel, gothic romance and Cornish folklore coil together like the scales on a mermaid’s tail. We meet Merryn, a girl estranged from her mother, who returns to the wild lands that birthed her and the secrets that haunt the family home, slipping between scenes of her childhood growing up on Bodmin Moor and the present day, as she’s lured back to attend the funeral of the girl she loved. A love letter to Cornwall, this is a land where mermaids, selkies and fairy creatures called piskies are worshipped. It’s lushly written, sensations and smells dripping vividly from the page: burst berries, the sweet smell of rot, the wildflowers of the Cornish moors, a farmhouse…

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