The Girl Who Dreamt of Dolphins (34 page)

‘
The Girl Who Dreamt Of Dolphins’ is the first book in the
Dolphin Child trilogy about Lucy Parr and Spirit. ‘Dolphin Child’
is the second. A few later Lucy is surprised but grateful that her
father allows her to stay with her aunt Bethany down in Cornwall
during the summer holidays. She is able to spend real time with
Spirit who, like her, is learning to overcome the loss of his own
mother.

Observed one morning by a strange boy while Lucy swims with
dolphins, she spots him later the same day being bullied by a group
of local kids. When Paul tells Lucy he knows about a dolphin
trapped in a secret lagoon, she doesn’t know whether to believe
him, but her recurring dream of lonely dolphin trapped in murky
waters troubles her.

When Lucy discovers the disturbing story of an
eighteen-century Dolphin Child called Susan Penhaligon, Lucy begins
to understand why Paul’s mother is so unfriendly to her. At the
same time Spirit’s discovery of a pod with human names makes him
wonder what really happened to the children that Susan Penhaligon
led out to sea that day.

Lucy and Paul become joined in their quest to discover the
truth about the lone dolphin. Will Paul’s desire to escape the
local bullies and to become a dolphin child too lead to a tragic
repetition of Susan Penhaligon’s fate? What is the link between the
trapped dolphin and Spirit?