![]() Instead, Neptune offers them the opportunity to live like a family, although they have to do it on an island in a secure location for the rest of their lives. Love should not be punished by incarceration. Neptune holds court, in complete control and after deliberating decides that Emily is right. ![]() Instead, she and Shona along with her mother and babysitter Millie are arrested and brought before Neptune to answer charges. Although she manages to find him, freeing her father is not as easy as she'd hoped it would be. He'd been arrested and incarcerated for falling in love with a human - something strictly forbidden by Neptune.Įmily decides to find her father, and with Shona's help she manages to break her way through the Great Mermer Reef to the other side where the prison is located. Shona is the first one to tell Emily about her father and correct the lie she'd been told her whole life. She ventures further from home each time, and on her second time out she meets another mermaid who introduces herself as Shona once she is over the shock of seeing her. ![]() As soon as she enters the water and her tail appears, she becomes graceful and feels tremendous power and control.Įmily begins sneaking out whenever she can, enjoying every minute in the water. Despite wanting out of the swimming classes, Emily loves the water. The first Wednesday of Year Seven will be one she remembers forever.Īlthough no one sees her tail appear, or thankfully disappear when she gets out of the water again, Emily is still too afraid to attend another class, especially after sneaking out that night and repeating the performance off the pier where King is docked. Shocked, and afraid, the swimming teacher helps her out of the water, but no one notices her legs joined and scaled. Emily's first lesson changes her life, beginning with the appearance of a tail where her legs should be when she first immerses herself in the pool. ![]() Until now, her mother's fear of the water had prevented Emily from learning to swim, despite repeated requests. Emily's life is fairly normal until she finally convinces her mother to allow her to take swimming lessons when she begins secondary school. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler is a story about a 12-year-old girl who lives with her mother on a boat called the King of the Sea. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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