Publisher: Interlink Books Copyright: 1992 Publication date: 1992 In print. Order from Amazon Books

The Scottish travellers called these half-seal, half-human creatures "silkies", a word derived from the softness of a sealskin. It can forecast the weather: before a storm the hair rises, when the sun comes out the sealskin lies smooth and soft and silky. The stories of the Seal People, fantastic to the modern reader, were only too real to those who listened round the fires on the shoreside. And how they loved these tales of romance or obsession, and revenge. The traveller people had no fear of being taken by the silkies. To them it was a world they yearned for.

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