The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar export her father and his conspirators

her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half-sister Mary

In the end

discrimination and exhaustion”

' Dominic Sandbrook

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar export her father and his conspiratorsThis sumptuous doorstopper is one of the years most hotly anticipated debuts, said Johanna Thomas Corr in the London Evening Standard. It tells the story of a merchant and a celebrity courtesan brought together by a mermaid in London in 1785. The selkie in question is a fake: a fishs tail sewn onto the torso of a dead infant. When it falls into the hands of Deptford merchant Jonah Hancock, he launches a lucrative freak show which brings him into