{"product_id":"the-mermaid-chronicles-megan-dunn-9781776950867","title":"The Mermaid Chronicles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe true tale of how one woman's lifelong obsession became a midlife mermaid odyssey, from the irrepressibly witty author of Tinderbox and Things I Learned at Art School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty, freckled and facing infertility, Megan Dunn hears the siren call that reawakens her lifelong obsession, and sets off in pursuit of mermaids. Real mermaids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Coney Island and Copenhagen to Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand, from the semiotics of 1984 romantic comedy Splash to meet-ups with top professional mermaids, her odyssey takes her fathoms\n\u003cbr\u003edeep, past the wreck and the boardwalk, as she asks the question that has plagued humans for millennia- What is it about mermaids?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiving into the caverns of her own life, Megan loses the plot but finds her voice and hears the mermaids singing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShimmeringly intellectual and devastatingly deadpan, tragicomic and true, this is an off-the-hook tale about sex and death, mothers and daughters, women's work and marriage, the stories we tell ourselves and the myths that define us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Her voice is so strong. It's wonderful.' - Lorde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A treasure of a memoir . . . funny, frank and moving.' - Kim Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Observes the importance of fantasy with keen wit and an open heart'. - Pip Adam, author of The New Animals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fabulously witty adventure, written in deeply moving prose.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Megan Dunn","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46196041875699,"sku":"9781776950867","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781776950867.jpg?v=1726344802","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-mermaid-chronicles-megan-dunn-9781776950867","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}