I Read Stories: Deliver by Safiya Cherfi

 

Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in Inner Worlds

On a remote Scottish island a reporter follows a strange story. About a mermaid, which he refers to as a creature. He’s not got the story from someone local, because they would have called it a sea-child.

The women in Màiri’s family sometimes lost babies to the sea. This is something Màiri has known since she was little. And sometimes, it seems, the sea offers something back.

Read This: Story of family, community, secrets and the sea
Don’t Read This: Tragedy that can’t quite explain anything