Who She Was review: Tony Parsons' new thriller is a love letter to Cornwall
by William Hosie
Jun 14, 2024
2 minutes
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In the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor, a mysterious young woman sometimes spotted at her parish church is followed home one day by a young man and never seen again. A group of local sailors later claim to find her when she reappears to them as a mermaid. She is “the beautiful woman who everyone loved but nobody
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