The Brighton Mermaid

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Dorothy Koomson is the author of twelve novels including That Girl From Nowhere, The Chocolate Run, The Woman He Loved Before, The Ice Cream Girls and My Best Friend’s Girl.

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The Mermaid Trail is a set of six identical Mermaid statues situated in key locations across New Brighton. It is a riveting book that any thriller aficionado will enjoy but I think it may resonate deeper with anyone who has ever experience prejudice.I'm encouraging people to take rubbish home with them on the beach and raising awareness but in a really funky way.

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Poppy and Serena are back, and the events of The Ice Cream Girls are still affecting them, 30 years later. Honour credits the event’s success to her fellow volunteer team members Amanda Lucas, David Flack and Keith Holman. The Brighton tradition saw hundreds of sparkly activists stroll down Brighton’s promenade to the tune of drums and whistles on Saturday. An exciting new tourist trail celebrating a New Brighton legend is set to become the resort’s latest visitor attraction - just in time for summer.This exciting tourist Trail is based upon the local legend of The Black Rock Mermaid who was reported in an 18 th Century Chapbook to have appeared to a local sailor and whose moonlight home is at the foot of Perch Rock Lighthouse, the original Black Rock. The trail is purposefully designed to show visitors parts of New Brighton that they might not otherwise have got to see and show them some of the attractions and unique character that can be found away from the traditional tourist locations. Choose from a collection of some of the most celebrated massages including; deep tissue, aromatherapy and Swedish. Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid.

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These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Described as ‘perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult’, this book is a brilliant portrayal of friendship, family and the complex issue of surrogacy. Entitled, ‘Paxtonea – the Soothing Siren’, its decoration tells the story of the legend in a way that provokes awareness of the sensory needs of people with anxiety and on the autistic spectrum. The six ‘life size’ identical statues were designed and sculpted by local artist, Barry Canning-Eaton, and five decorated by local schools and an arts based community interest organisation. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages, and in 2013, a TV adaptation based on her brilliant novel The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV.

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At college, best friends Adele Brannon and Kamryn Matika thought nothing could come between them—until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn’s fiancé. This is situated on the corner of Victoria Road and Atherton Street close to New Brighton railway station. It is hoped that local residents and visitors to New Brighton will also take part in the launch by joining the Mayor of Wirral at the end of the trail on the 7 th June at 2. Those marching were joined by drummers, a steel band and then at the Fortune of War singers and DJs playing “fishy tunes”. Nova agreed to be surrogate mother for her friend Mal and his wife – and yet eight years later, she finds herself bringing up their son alone.

The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. A self-confessed daydreamer, she wrote her first ‘novel’ aged 13, writing a chapter every night and passing them to her friends at convent school to read. Caroline and other members of the New Brighton Coastal Community Team, will be joined by the artist, Barry Canning-Eaton, Lee Rollason from funders DONG Energy, those who decorated the statues and other local people on a walkabout of the trail to mark the official launch on Wednesday 7 th June. The Brighton Mermaid a captivating tale that explores adolescence, abuse, institutional racism and redemption. Pupils from St George’s Primary School are responsible for the ‘Mermaid of Memories’, the fifth statue on the trail.