01504cam a2200313 4500 607067609 TxAuBib 20221012120000.0 211031s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022027930 9781982180812 1982180811 (OCoLC)1281583036 TxAuBib Kidd, Jess, author. The night ship / Jess Kidd. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2022. 389 pages ; 24 cm. 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... 20221012. Shipwrecks Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Fate and fatalism Fiction. Western Australia Fiction. Historical fiction.