The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo the nation's favourite storyteller & multi-million copy bestseller May 1915 Alfie & his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies
- injured thirsty lost & with absolutely no memory of who she is or how she came to be there She can say only one word Lucy Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid the victim of a German U-boat or even
- as some islanders suggest
- a German spy? Only one thing is for sure she loves music & moonlight & it is when she listens to the gramophone that the glimmers of the girl she once was begin to appear WW1 is raging suspicion & fear are growing & Alfie & Lucy are ever more under threat But as we begin to see the story of Merry a girl boarding a great ship for a perilous journey across the ocean another melody enters the great symphony
- & the music begins to resolve A beautiful tour de force of family love war & forgiveness this is a major new novel from the author of PRIVATE PEACEFUL
- in which what was once lost may sometimes be found washed up again on the shore