![]() ![]() It remains a favorite of mine some five years and hundreds of novels later. I couldn’t stop talking about it, the way her adroit word smithery combined with a hilarious tale of sheer, spun magic. When I read her debut novel, she captured my whole heart. Her eccentricity and her appreciation of working class struggle sets her in a class beyond most authors.Īnd yet. Goodness knows what else she’s got up her sleeve. Clearly, Kidd is at the height of her craft-so far, at least. They are separate, and yet together, and the nearer we get to the conclusion, the more commonalities reveal themselves. The way that Kidd braids the stories of these two children into one well crafted novel is admirable. There isn’t much to do there, and he finds his imagination is captured by the tales of a shipwreck that occurred here hundreds of years ago. Over three hundred years later in 1989, a boy named Gil has also lost his mother, and is sent to live on the same island with his cantankerous grandfather. ![]() When the ship goes down, she is marooned on an island near Australia. Our protagonist is Mayken, a child whose mother has died she is being sent to her father in the company of her elderly nurse maid. The Night Ship is based on a true story, the sinking of the famous ship, the Batavia, in 1629. My thanks go to Net Galley and Atria Books for the review copy. ![]()
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