Fact.īut what I realised in that moment was that the issues that concerned me – as someone who had a decade earlier come out myself and who had always cared deeply about justice – had somehow sneaked into the book, in a metaphorical, allegorical, only-if-you-know-they-are-there kind of way. It is a book about a girl who discovers that when she goes in water she becomes a mermaid. Not that the book is, in itself, anything to do with sexuality. She stands up in Neptune's court, insists that his laws are unfair and demands that people should be allowed to marry whoever they want!' She wonders how to tell her mum who she really is.
'She's afraid that people will call her names. 'A girl discovers a part of herself that she didn't realise was there,' he said. But as he's my brother, I indulged him and let him tell me his theory. I'm pretty sure it's about a girl who becomes a mermaid,' I insisted. 'No, no, no, no, no,' my brother went on. It's about a girl who becomes a mermaid,' I replied. 'You know what Emily Windsnap is all about of course, don't you?' he said to me.
When it comes to rest, she and her best friend, Shona, can see a mysterious castle shimmering in the mist on the horizon.How books can hold hidden messages - that even the authors don't know aboutĮmily Windsnap author Liz Kessler thought she was just writing books about a mermaid - but then her brother pointed out that they had another layer that she hadn't even known about.Ī little while after my first book, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, was published, I was having a conversation with my brother. But the ring, once on, won't come off, and an angry Neptune sends Emily's boat spinning away across the sea. The magic ring that Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back. Soon Emily discovers a glorious underwater world of fishes, coral, shipwrecks and mermaids, and - best of all - she finds a best friend! With mermaid Shona Silkfin by her side, Emily uncovers a surprising family secret and embarks on a quest to reunite her mum and dad.Įmily Windsnap is thrilled to arrive at her new home - a secret island near the Bermuda Triangle where humans and merfolk live together and where being a girl who grows a tail as soon as she enters the water isn't a problem.īut she can't resist exploring forbidden places, and, as a result, she inadvertently wakes the kraken - the legendary sea monster that has been asleep for 200 years!Įmily tries to undo the damage as the kraken's terrifying tentacles rise from the deep! It is only when Emily has her first school swimming lesson that she discovers why: as soon as she gets into the water, she grows a tail! An enchanting fantasy series which deals with universal themes of family, friendship, love and justice.Įmily Windsnap lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water. The first three audiobooks in the best-selling Emily Windsnap series.
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