She is withdrawn and restless, and her only relief is the underwater world of Ingo. Conor has adapted to this new life, but Sapphire cannot. Sapphire, Conor, and their mother have moved to St Pirans with Roger, leaving behind their cottage by the sea, where their dad disappeared two years ago. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.The Tide Knot is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2006 and the second of the Ingo tetralogy (preceded by Ingo and followed by The Deep and The Crossing of Ingo). In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. "Ingo is an intoxicating adventure… Wonderful, evocative storytelling." Publishing News "A remarkable fantasy… It's a haunting, beautifully written book which creates a totally believable parallel world." Northern Echo "Helen Dunmore is an exceptional and versatile writer and she writes with a restrained, sensual grace." Observer "Helen Dunmore may have a few drowned readers on her conscience, so enticing and believable is the underwater world she creates in Ingo." Telegraph "The electric thrill of swimming with dolphins, of racing along currents, and of leaving the world of reason and caution behind are described with glorious intensity." Amanda Craig, The Times "Ingo has a haunting, dangerous beauty all of its own." Philip Ardagh, Guardian “This is a wonderful fantasy story…” Jan Winter, Inis “Like the ocean itself, this book is deep and strange and marvellous.” Nial MacMonagle, The Irish Times “Dunmore's graceful style is what makes the unbelievable believable…” The Independent on Sunday "Intensely compelling… gorgeous." Amanda Craig, The Times And soon both Sapphire and Conor will be drawn into Ingo’s troubled waters… They long to see their Mer friends Faro and Elvira, and swim with the dolphins once more.īut a crisis is brewing far below the ocean’s surface, where the wisest of the Mer guards the Tide Knot. Sapphire and Conor can’t forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious world beneath the sea. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. The dramatic and spellbinding sequel to Helen Dunmore's critically acclaimed ‘Ingo’.
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