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The Tide Knot (The Ingo Chronicles, Book 2)
By (Author) Helen Dunmore
Book 2
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
1st November 2025
31st July 2025
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Mythic fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Mermaids /mermen /merfolk
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
270g
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this second novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles.
I cant go back in the house. Im restless, prickling all over. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. But its not the wind that worries me. Its something else, beyond the storm
Sapphire and Conor cant forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious world beneath the sea. They long to see their Mer friends Faro and Elvira, and swim with the dolphins once more.
But a crisis is brewing far below the oceans surface, where the wisest of the Mer guards the Tide Knot. And soon both Sapphire and Conor will be drawn into Ingos troubled waters.
Praise for The Tide Knot:
"Intensely compelling gorgeous." Amanda Craig, The Times
Dunmore's graceful style is what makes the unbelievable believable The Independent on Sunday
Like the ocean itself, this book is deep and strange and marvellous. Nial MacMonagle, The Irish Times
This is a wonderful fantasy story Jan Winter, Inis
Praise for Ingo:
"Ingo has a haunting, dangerous beauty all of its own." Philip Ardagh, Guardian
"The electric thrill of swimming with dolphins, of racing along currents, and of leaving the world of reason and caution behind are described with glorious intensity." Amanda Craig, The Times
"Compellingly lyrical." Independent
"Helen Dunmore may have a few drowned readers on her conscience, so enticing and believable is the underwater world she creates in Ingo." Telegraph
"Helen Dunmore is an exceptional and versatile writer and she writes with a restrained, sensual grace." Observer
"A remarkable fantasy It's a haunting, beautifully written book which creates a totally believable parallel world." Northern Echo
"Ingo is an intoxicating adventure Wonderful, evocative storytelling." Publishing News
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.