Mayken is travelling with her nursemaid on the ship Batavia to meet her father who has never been in her life having left before she was born. Now her mother is pregnant again but Mayken must always say she has died.
As it would seem there are two stories to this book set several centuries apart and the first look gave only a little of the earlier timeline, this makes it quite difficult to judge if the story would appeal
As it would seem there are two stories to this book set several centuries apart and the first look gave only a little of the earlier timeline, this makes it quite difficult to judge if the story would appeal