Fear The Drowning Deep

Name: Fear The Drowning Deep
Author: Sarah Glenn Marsh
ISBN: 9781510703483

by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his face. Now, in 1913, those haunting memories are dredged to the surface when a young woman is found drowned on the beach. Bridey suspects that whatever compelled her Granddad to leap has made its return to the Isle of Man. Soon, people in Bridey’s idyllic village begin vanishing, and she finds an injured boy on the shore—an outsider who can’t remember who he is or where he’s from. Bridey’s family takes him in so he can rest and heal.…

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"Sarah Glenn Marsh paints a portrait of a little Manx fishing village in 1913, where people are disappearing and mythical creatures may be to blame. Bridey has hated the sea ever since it took her grandfather away, and all she wants to do is leave the island behind forever. But when she finds a mysterious young man washed up on the beach, she will have to put aside her terror of the sea to protect her loved ones. Fans of folklore-influenced YA will find this to be a satisfying use of familiar material."

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