'Dreamer.' Mum called her. 'Always miles away.' Sadie lives by the Thames at Greenwich and longs for sea adventure. She happily whiles away hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at The Cutty Sark and fills her head with dreams of ocean voyages on ancient sailing ships. 'And there inside she found a different world Where rigging sang and white winged sails unfurled.' One day she falls asleep beneath a cabinet in the museum and wakes to find herself embarking on an adventure she could only have dreamed of ... Duffy's lyrical poetry and Joice's richly imaginative illustrations combine to create an unforgettable voyage into a magical world of dolphins, mermaids, pirates and treasure.
Maureen T. Duffy Books
Maureen Duffy's work frequently employs Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as conceptual frameworks. Her distinctive style utilizes contrasting voices and streams of consciousness, often incorporating the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels align with a European literary tradition that probes reality through language and inquiry rather than conventional linear narrative. Duffy has inspired many writers, demonstrating that the English novel can transcend realism and domesticity to embrace the fantastical, experimental, and political.


A new addition to the SF Masterwork series - the tale of the first human/gorilla hybrid, from his birth and growth to his inevitable end.