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Thanks and well done because it sounds like it, but I don’t think that’s it.

Amanda
– Amanda

2026-02-28 03:49:37 +00:00
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@Amanda I found some photographs of a few pages from the book on ebay, the house includes a "big trap-door" inside, it sounds like it is the scene you're describing. I added it to the answer. That would be a really big coincidence if two books shared all these exact features ("bay" in the title, a book for children, the publication date, publication location in Australia, includes mermaids, includes a family moving in a new inherited house, problems related to development, a trap-door inside the house), or if not a coincidence possibly one book that plagiarized the other.

J-J-J
– J-J-J

2026-02-28 08:33:52 +00:00
Commented 21 hours ago

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