Beneath the World, a Sea Sadie Jones a girl condemned to burn

a girl condemned to burn as a heretic

So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past

This all changes when she goes out on the night of Beht Zha'ir

Here a giant squid attacks their seaplane and this is the picture that is on the dust cover of the book

It was the beginning

Beneath the World, a Sea Sadie Jones a girl condemned to burn'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts