Read this on galpod.com. I enjoyed this book very much. I read it for my library reading group, and the discussion was great fun. It tells the story of two people in London in the late 18th century (1785-6, for those of you who, like me, find the century count confusing). The two people are Mr Jonah Hancock, a merchant, middle-class white man who stumbles upon a mermaid, and Angelica Neal, a high-class prostitute whose benefactor passed away and she must now re-establish hers