Ashly Lovett‘s the Little Mermaid

Ashly Lovett‘s The Little Mermaid is luminously illustrated in colour charcoal presenting a unique and haunting, novella length, retelling of Hans Christian Andersen‘s classic fairy tale. Lit with bioluminescence, the bottom of the ocean is a dark mystery as alluring as the human world above. Lovett‘s little mermaid is given relevant internal thoughts and agency over her choices which makes them at once more understandable and heartbreaking. Produced in a novella length hardbound book, this retelling of The Little Mermaid will make an excellent addition to any fairy tale or mermaid afficionado‘s shelves. This is an edited edition of Ashly Lovett‘s first self-published title The Little Mermaid, in this edition the illustrations are in colour and the text has been lightly edited. Features all 11 of the original illustrations + spot illustrations (now in colour) throughout the manuscript, and sumptuously reproduced on deluxe paper.