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Title details for The Night Ship by Jess Kidd - Available

The Night Ship

A Novel

by Jess Kidd
Fleur De Wit
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Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars 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.
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, 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.

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...

With her trademark "thrilling, mysterious, twisted, but more than anything, beautifully written" (Graham Norton, New York Times bestselling author) storytelling, Jess Kidd weaves "a true work of magic" (V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) about friendship, sacrifice, brutality, and forgiveness.

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  • Release date

    October 4, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781797140483
      • File size: 295032 KB
      • Duration: 10:14:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 22, 2022
      Kidd (Things in Jars) unfurls parallel narratives of two nine-year-old children in her intriguing latest, based on a historical shipwreck. In 1628, after the mother of a girl named Mayken dies, she sails from Holland to the Dutch East Indies with her nursemaid to join her merchant father. Mayken’s precocious nature leads her to explore the ship, called the Batavia. While dressed as a boy in order to pass unnoticed, Mayken searches deep into the Batavia for a monster that crew members claim lives there. In 1989, a boy named Gil goes to live on Beacon Island in Australia after his mother’s death. Gil now lives with his fisherman grandfather, Joss Hurley. This is where the Batavia sank, and an excavation of the wreck is now underway. Gil is intrigued by the project and by the rumor that a ghost still haunts the island. Meanwhile, a feud escalates between Joss and Roper, another fisherman, that started years ago when Roper’s uncle drowned at sea. Kidd effortlessly navigates between the two time periods, highlighting the similarities between Mayken’s and Gil’s lives and the increasing dangers they face. Readers will be swept up in this fast-paced narrative. Agent: Amelia Atlas, ICM Partners.

    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2023

      In Kidd's (Things in Jars) epic historical novel, the year 1629 finds nine-year-old Mayken, whose mother has just died, being sent to the Dutch Indies on the ill-fated Batavia, one of the premier ships of the Dutch Golden Age, which will soon go down in a horrific shipwreck. Mayken spends her time at sea getting into misadventures and searching the ship for a monster she has been told lives below deck. In 1989, Gil, who like Mayken has just lost his mother, is sent to live on the west coast of Australia. There he spends his days searching for the site of the Batavia shipwreck. Kidd's novel follows the intertwined stories of the two children who are separated by 400 years but are each subjected to trauma and horror. Fleur De Wit and Adam Fitzgerald switch off narrating the shifting points of view, sweeping listeners into Mayken's seafaring escapades and Gil's heartbreaking search to belong. Listeners will be captivated and will want to learn more about the aftermath of the real Batavia disaster. VERDICT A poignant work of historical fiction, sure to appeal to readers of Ruta Sepetys's Salt to the Sea or Kiran Millwood Hargraves's The Mercies.--Elyssa Everling

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In 1628, a Dutch ship bound for Batavia (now Indonesia) sank off the coast of Australia. This audiobook is the fictional accounts of a 9-year-old Dutch girl who perished on the adjacent lonely island and a 9-year-old misfit Australian boy three hundred years later. In a gentle, innocent tone, Fleur De Wit narrates the story of Mayken, a privileged girl of aristocratic lineage and boundless curiosity. As Mayken befriends sailors and dreams of pirate adventures, De Wit adds verbal touches of character. Alternating chapters narrated by Adam Fitzgerald describe the struggles of Gil, whose drug-addicted mother's death results in his being raised by his grandfather, a gruff fisherman who lives on the remote island in 1989. In an Australian accent, Fitzgerald describes Gil's discovery of artifacts from the fifteenth-century wreck. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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