book cover of The Leper\'s Companions
 

The Leper's Companions

(1999)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel (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.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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