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Costa Book of the Year - The Mermaid of Black Conch
by Brandon King
The prestigious £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award for 2020 was recently awarded to Monique Roffey for her sixth novel [The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story](https://suffolklibraries.overdrive.com/media/5564131?cid=1159286).
March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries. And she is entranced by this man David and his song.
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