And Ingo blood runs deep through her veins and it is not long before the call of that other world becomes too strong to resist. When Sapphire follows Conor one day, after he has been gone a long time, she meets Faro-a Merman who introduces her to Ingo, an underwater world she could only have dreamed existed. They love the water so much, and spend hours in the nearby cove. The following summer, both Conor and Sapphire are inexorably drawn to the water, despite the worries of their mother. She remembers stories he used to tell her about a Mer creature who fell in love with a human, but could not come to live with him in the dry air. Sapphire still thinks her father is alive. Set in Cornwall, Ingo is the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and what happens to them after their father mysteriously disappears at sea. But Dunmore's original description throughout this book is one of its best qualities. It's not easy to imagine life under the waves, living and breathing amongst an ancient people without resorting to stereotypes.
Helen Dunmore, author of Zillah and Me and The Silver Bead, begins a trilogy for children with a novel that describes both an idyllic life, growing up beside the sea, and an undersea world of wonder and amazement with equal aplomb.
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