This is the first book I've read by this author (thank you very much to Readers First for my review copy!) but I really enjoyed The Night Ship.
Wasn't sure what I'd think as I find it quite hard to read books that jump around different moments in time, but this book made it work. I did, however, find one strain of the story more engaging than the other which made me rush through the chapters away from that.
The story focuses on a ship, the biggest and most impressive of its time, and follows the journey of a child travelling to find her father on the Batavia. She needs to find her place among a busy ship and its crew, and is obsessed with reaching out of her comfort zone to find adventure among the aft-deck, the lower deck and the mysterious hold. Along the way she has to dodge rats, soldiers, mythical creatures and the 'stonecutter', a man who crushed men with a single hand.
All in all a spellbinding read!
Wasn't sure what I'd think as I find it quite hard to read books that jump around different moments in time, but this book made it work. I did, however, find one strain of the story more engaging than the other which made me rush through the chapters away from that.
The story focuses on a ship, the biggest and most impressive of its time, and follows the journey of a child travelling to find her father on the Batavia. She needs to find her place among a busy ship and its crew, and is obsessed with reaching out of her comfort zone to find adventure among the aft-deck, the lower deck and the mysterious hold. Along the way she has to dodge rats, soldiers, mythical creatures and the 'stonecutter', a man who crushed men with a single hand.
All in all a spellbinding read!