NHFT virtual book club - our next read is The Mermaid

Following our visit to Sheffield in the excellent crime thriller Firewatching by Russ Thomas, our next novel for the 11th NHFT virtual book club will take us to 19th century America, and the world of P.T. Barnum in The Mermaid by Christina Henry.

Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.

Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid.

Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he’s determined to hold on to his mermaid.

"Wild things ought to be free. They can't belong to anybody.”

The next meeting will be Thursday the 2nd of December at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there.