The Surface Breaks

This feminist revision of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story comes from the recipient of The Bookseller's YA Book Prize Louise O'Neill, who is also a popular columnist in }The Irish Examiner{Deep beneath the sea off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of being human... but at what terrible price? Hans Christian Andersen's dark original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans. A book with the darkest of undercurrents, storytelling at its most spellbinding.