The stunning new novel of 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...and 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...