About the author(s)

Lisa Carey is the author of The Mermaids Singing, In the Country of the Young, and Love in the Asylum. She lived in Ireland for five years and now resides in Portland, Maine, with her husband and their son.

Reviews

“Lush and sensual.” - Boston Herald

“Mermaids combines the flinty Ireland of Angela's Ashes...and the long-delayed reunion of lost loves of Cold Mountain.” - New York magazine

“A wonderfully, vividly written account of the love and seeming lack of it between mothers and daughters.” - Washington Post