Ingo

Dunmore, Helen

ISBN 10: 0007204876 / ISBN 13: 9780007204878

Published by HarperCollins Children s Books, 2005

About this Item

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Blue cloth, copper-tone titles and illustration, pictorial dustjacket. Condition: Near fine. Very slight spotting to edge of text block. Fine unclipped dj in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 9x5.5in / 23x14cm. 320pp. Weight: 520g.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1678646400310

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ingo
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children s Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007204876
• ISBN 13: 9780007204878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy and Sci Fi
  • Fiction
  • Children's

About this title

Synopsis

A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea.

You’ll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn’t come to live with him up in the dry air. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. He became one of the Mer people…

Sapphire’s father told her that story when she was little. When he is lost at sea she can’t help but think of that old myth; she’s convinced he’s still alive.

The following summer her brother Conor keeps disappearing for hours on end. She goes to the cove to find him, but instead meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Merman. He takes her to Ingo and introduces her to a world she never knew existed. She must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea and all things Mer.

After her first visit she is entranced – merely the sound of running water makes her yearn to be in Ingo once more. Ingo blood runs strongly in Sapphy and Conor fears she will leave the Air world for good. He pleads with her to ignore her craving for the sea and stay safely in their cottage up on the cliff.

But not only is Sapphy intoxicated by the Mer world, she longs to see her father once more. And she’s sure she can hear him singing across the water…
“I wish I was away in Ingo
Far across the briny sea…”

About the Author

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, and her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction.