The Night Ship A Novel

<B>Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of <I>Things in Jars</I> that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.</B><BR><BR>1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the <i>Batavia</i>, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks.<BR> <BR>1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where his late mother once resided. There, on the tiny reef-shrouded island, he discovers the story of an infamous shipwreck…<BR> <BR>With her trademark “thrilling, mysterious, twisted, but more than anything, beautifully written” (Graham Norton, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author) storytelling, Jess Kidd weaves “a true work of magic” (V.E. Schwab, author of <i>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue</i>) about friendship, sacrifice, brutality, and forgiveness.