Dancing with Mermaids

Dancing With Mermaids is the second novel by the English writer Miles Gibson.

The novel is set in the secluded fishing village of Rams Horn, once a fashionable Regency spa, at the mouth of the River Sheep, somewhere on the Dorset coast.

Rams Horn is described by the author as ‘a memory, a lost cause, a carnival of ghosts, an ark of half-forgotten dreams’.

The Financial Times described the setting as a secretive place ‘full of leery, venal, outsize, hideous and beautiful people’ [citation needed].

The New Yorker described the novel as ‘a wild, funny, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies’.