book cover of The Leper\'s Companions
 

The Leper's Companions

(1999)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee)
1999 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)

One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of the villagers on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea to Venice, and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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