Amelia Smith Jack is a proper young man of the Victorian era. He studies accountancy, lives with his maiden aunt, and smells like a fish. The fishy smell drives girls away faster than they can be introduced.
One night, Jack visits his lighthouse-keeper father on the Eddystone rocks. There, he meets his mother for the first time since he was a baby. She's a mermaid. Jack's mother sends him on a quest to find his two lost brothers, a porpoise and a porgie fish.
Jack's quest transforms him from lonely boy to glamorous merman. Along the way, he falls in love, battles carnival hucksters, and is scolded by a porpoise... and that's before he meets the mermaids.
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