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The Night Ship
- Narrated by: Fleur De Wit, Adam Fitzgerald
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick 1629.
Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. During the long voyage, this curious and resourceful child must find her place in the ship's busy world, and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck. As tensions spiral, the fate of the ship and all on board becomes increasingly uncertain.
1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death of his mother, is placed in the care of his irritable and reclusive grandfather. Their home is a shack on a tiny fishing island off the Australian coast, notable only for its reefs and wrecked boats. This is no place for a teenager struggling with a dark past and Gil's actions soon get him noticed by the wrong people.
The Night Ship is an enthralling tale of human cruelty, fate and friendship, and of two children, hundreds of years apart, whose fates are inextricably bound together.
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- M. E. Birch
- 08-04-24
Fascinating evocation of life (and death) on a VOC ship
I have visited the amazing replica of the Batavia in Lelystad in the Netherlands (well worth a visit) so found the historical detail particularly interesting. The more modern parallel of Gill’s life in the fishing community on the island worked well, and I thought the book was beautifully written and engaging. Narrations were both excellent too. A winner as far as I was concerned.
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- Karen A
- 30-08-22
Excellent but disturbing story
Well written story and excellent narrators - but I’m glad to be leaving the claustrophobic worlds of Gil and Mika…
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- Anonymous
- 09-08-23
Beautifully read
Love the accents. I never knew the story and it was very interesting. Sometimes the links between the parallel periods felt a bit laboured.
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- Mrs. Jodie Mitchell-Aziz
- 08-04-23
Life just is
This was an eye opening, vivid historical fiction, that uses the popular method of transitioning between two characters chapter by chapter. Although these characters lived 300 years apart, you did expect their lives to somehow converge in the end. But sometimes life just is. No dramatisation of these characters’ stories was necessary. Brilliantly read by both narrators.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-24
meh
I had given myself zome exprctations for what this story was going to be, but it fell flat for me. It could have been so much more than it is.
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- Woody
- 17-11-22
Wonderful story
Beautiful story. I love all of Jess Kidd's books, but The Night Ship is something special.
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- Ms Vee McKInlay
- 21-10-23
Beautifully Told!
Through carefully weaving fact and fiction together Jess Kidd has created two parallel stories set centuries apart but each echoing the other. Couldn’t stop listening, I was completely hooked!
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- J. A. Gagliano
- 31-01-23
Could have been better
I felt the book was a little bit rambly. The idea of the story was great and it’s based on a real shipwreck, just think the story could’ve been more engaging.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-11-22
Another wonderful story by Jess Kidd
I’ve enjoyed all of Jess Kidd’s previous books & this story did not disappoint. It is poignant & historically very interesting.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-23
Very interesting but narration irritated a bit
Very interesting story based on the true shipwrecking and mutiny of the Batavia in 1629. I liked the interweaving of the stories of two 9 year old children - one on the ship in 1629 and one in 1989 on the island in Australia where the survivors had 'lived and died '. I didn't however like the female narrator's voice and wish I'd read this instead.
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