Dark Mermaids Sheri Young Every reader will be struck

Every reader will be struck by a poet who has a gift for accepting mortality with wise optimism

Today the site of the colliery is a green wilderness

Written from the edges of the city

I particularly care for the frailty and edges of coherence loss

the late Jill Balcon

Dark Mermaids Sheri Young Every reader will be struck1990. The Berlin Wall has fallen, Kathe is dead and a young girl arrives on officer Sophia Knstlers doorstep asking for help. Sophia is forced to return to her childhood home in the former German Democratic Republic, where she faces a past filled with secrets. With her job as a police officer hanging in the balance, Sophia begins to investigate a dangerous web of State Plan 14. 25. As she reluctantly delves into the sordid Stasi secrets of those she