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|title=Elijah's Mermaid

|author=Essie Fox

|reviewer=Ani Johnson

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1409123347

|pages=416

|publisher=Orion

|date=November 2012

|website=http://www.essiefox.com

|summary=A Victorian thriller that will hold you tightly till the last moment as the twists, surprises and excitement build and keep coming.

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Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher and old friend Frederick Hall. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildren, Lily and Elijah, in a London home for foundlings. Lamb's son Gabriel had died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappeared. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discovery, Augustus adopts the twins, raising them in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland House. There the children grow, happy and loved.

''Elijah's Mermaid'' is such a good book that you will want to turn all distractions out of the house before you start it, but, after doing that make sure that you turn all the house lights on. Indeed, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the hallway…

If you've enjoyed this and would like to read more of the Victorian world of art whilst living the adventures of foundlings, try [[The Exhibitionists by Russell James]].

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