Monique Roffey has penned an article, 'Top 10 books about mermaids', for The Guardian. You can read it online now.
Monique writes:
My novel The Mermaid of Black Conch embodies some of these archetypes; the title character is cursed by other women and yes, she has a sweet singing voice. But the book is a feminist rewrite of an old Taino myth. With her sexuality sealed up inside her tail, Aycayia, a young indigenous woman, is caught by Americans during a fishing competition, rescued, and in the end beats her curse by claiming her erotic rite of passage. She changes those she meets, too. Here are some of the mermaid books I’ve admired and been inspired by while writing my own story.
