Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid to find her voice? Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans. A book with the darkest of undercurrents, full of rage and rallying cries: storytelling at its most spellbinding. {goodreads}
Three things I loved about The Surface Breaks:
1. I couldn't be sure, right until the very last page, how this story was going to end. In particular whether it was going to be happy or tragic.
2. The complexity of the characters. No one felt one-dimensional, and every character had a depth to their backstory that explained why they acted in the way they did.
3. Despite being set in an underwater fantasy world for half the novel, like Only Ever Yours, TSB offered a startling and terrifying reflection of reality.
I was initially going to wait and read TSB after I'd finished writing Out of Water, but I ended up reading it just before I got to the end. It was a great way to motivate me to finish my own retelling.
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