Experience love and loss in this enchanting sea mystery from Natalie Babbitt, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, the basis for the 1982 movie adaption of the same name.
"Geneva Reade goes to visit her grandmother's ocean-side cabin and is drawn into the old woman's thirty-year-long struggle to wrest a supernatural message from the depths of the sea." --"The New York Times Book Review"
When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But someone else is waiting, too,...
"Geneva Reade goes to visit her grandmother's ocean-side cabin and is drawn into the old woman's thirty-year-long struggle to wrest a supernatural message from the depths of the sea." --"The New York Times Book Review"