They’re children’s books by the acclaimed late British poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, set in the rocky cliffs and azure sea of Cornwall in the southern part of Great Britain. The Ingo series has four books – Ingo, The Tide Knot, The Deep, and The Crossing of Ingo, with a standalone addition, Stormswept, published later with different characters. I’m rereading these children’s books in the sticky Auckland summer, diving into their ocean of adventure where it’s possible to breathe underwater and you can ride ocean currents like a rollercoaster. The spines of Helen Dunmore’s Ingo books, a collection of differently sized editions, make clear lines of blue and purple and green. Shanti Mathias explores what the quartet of underwater adventure novels meant to her childhood self, and what they mean to her now.
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