Beasts of the Sea : the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim

21 octobre 2025 | Donna Ferguson
Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plight Iida Turpeinen is the author of Beasts of the Sea, a Finnish novel tracing the fate of a now-extinct species: the sea cow. (…)
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