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The Mermaids Singing by Carey, Lisa is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mermaids Singing about?
<p>There is an island of the west coast or Ireland called Inis Muruch—the Island of the Mermaids—a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive powers of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel, weaving together the voices and lives of three generations of Irish-American women.</p> <p>Years ago, Cliona—strong, proud and practical—sailed for Boston, determined to one day come home. But when the time came to return to Inis Muruch, her daughter Grace—fierce, beautiful, and brazenly sexual—relented her mother's isolated, unfamiliar world. Though entranced by the sea and its healing powers, Grace became desperate to escape the confines of the island, one day stealing away with her small daughter Grainne.</p> <p>Now Grainne—motherless at thirteen after Grace's death room breast cancer is about to be taken back across the ocean by Cliona, repeating the journey her mother was forced to make years before. She goes to meet a rather she has never known, her heart pulled between a lire where she no longer belongs to a family she c
Who reads The Mermaids Singing?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Carey, Lisa
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Children's Book Group
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780380815593
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (1,660 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14