![]() ![]() Like an amalgamation of Snow White and Moby Dick's Ishmael she is found in a wooden straw-filled coffin-like box on the other side of the world, north of East Cape on the Russian side of the Bering Straits (the East Cape - Cape Dezhnev since 1898 - was then popular with whalers). ![]() ![]() It is now ten months later, and the poor lass has lain in a coma after having been picked up by the whaler Sarah Casket. What you need is the main ingredient, the protein in the dish, and in Night Birds in Nantucket that is provided by the indomitable figure of Dido Twite.When we last saw Dido she'd been lost at sea somewhere off the northeast coast of England, presumed dead. Take a dash of Jules Verne, add essence of Charles Dickens, several pinches of Herman Melville and season with adventure. Writing a successful novel is sometimes a little like inventing a recipe for a special dish. ![]()
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