The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill
Ages: 12-17Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Scholastic Press
A retelling of The Little Mermaid that is told in a beautiful but dark way.
Close to the Irish coast, under the sea, lived a young mermaid named Gaia. She dreams of leaving her controlling father and doesn't want to have an arranged marriage. She is drawn to a human boy when she goes on her first swim to the surface. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice?
In the masterful hands of Louise O'Neill, the girl known to many as the Little Mermaid must fight to keep her voice ... even if it means breaking out of the narrative she's been trapped inside her entire life. Break the rules. Break the surface. Brake free.
Louise O' Neill is from Clonakilty, in west Cork. After graduating with a BA in English Studies at Trinity College Dublin, she went on to complete a post-grad in Fashion Buying at DIT. Having spent a year in New York working for Kate Lanphear, the senior Style Director of Elle magazine, she returned home to Ireland to write her first novel. She went from hanging out on set with A-list celebrities to spending most of her days in pajamas while she writes, and has never been happier.
*I tried to reword the summary which is from the back of the book. The author info was from the scholastic website.*
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