She travels to the depths to try to convince Kraken the mythical creature to stop tormenting the inhabitants of the sea and their abode, and rather go to sleep as he had done for centuries. The story builds upon the events of the previous novels in describing Sapphires ability to travel to the depths of the sea. Her brother Connor is also conflicted though he has more of the Earth spirit rather than the Sea spirit of Sapphire his sister. She is struggling to reconcile both of her sea, and earthly world which is quite the task. Dunmore writes a novel about a Sapphire a young girl that has an Air and Earth mixture in her human body. The Deep: The third novel of the Ingo series that may be read as a standalone novel. But now Connor and Sapphire are discovering their supernatural powers making for an interesting inter-familial narrative. The man has founded a new mer family and seems to have totally forgotten about his earthly family. The more they stay in the new world the better they come to understand just what happened to their father. Unlike her brother that is more in tune with the Earth and Air spirit, Sapphire is dominated by the Spirit of the Sea/Ingo. They get a better understanding of Ingo when they become becomes friends with Elvira a mermaid from that world.Ĭonnor and Sapphire soon enter into the world of Ingo where she soon learn that they have a strong connection with Ingo and the sea given their mixed heritage. Together with their mother, they struggle to survive without their father. They just got news that their father drowned in the foreign land, but Sapphire and Connor are skeptical about the details of the story, or even that their father is really dead.

The Crossing of Ingo: The novel tells the story of Sapphire and Connor whose father is lost to the World of Ingo. Some of the most popular novels written by Helen Dunmore include the likes of: She was also shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2015, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the Orwell Prize. “Zennor in Darkness” won the McKitterick Prize in 1994 while “A Spell of Winter” made the shortlist for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was the winner of the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. HELEN DUNMORE AWARDSĭunmore has been the recipient of many awards over the years right from the very first novel that she wrote in 1994. Since the publication of her first work she went on to write many more novels, poems and children’s books that have won many top awards over the years. Lawrence from Cornwall after he was suspected of espionage.

Dunmore launched her career with the novel “Zennor in Darkness”, a novel published in 1994 exploring the expulsion of D.H.

The Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore