Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of the villagers on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea to Venice, and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land.
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Used availability for Julia Blackburn's The Leper's Companions
Hardback Editions
April 1999 : USA Hardback
January 1999 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2000 : USA Paperback
May 2000 : UK Paperback
1999 : USA Paperback
Kindle Editions
October 2013 : Canada, UK Kindle edition
October 2012 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
