Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook

Author:Lizzie Pook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2022-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

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She had never imagined she would find herself in agony too. It’s been seven days since Mrs. Riesly raised her cane in the shed, and nearly two torturous weeks since the Starling returned with its flag dropped to half-mast. And although Eliza, interned to her bungalow, wishes with every fiber of herself to be scouring the streets for clues, it is a struggle even to take one step. Every second she wants to howl with the need to be searching for her father. Every night she has faced the horror that he could be lost at sea alone. She has calmed herself with fabrications; tales of drowning men rescued by passing ships, of sailors swallowed by whales then spat out onto sunny shorelines. There was a story her father loved to tell best of all, about a storm at sea that had sunk a schooner with all hands but one. That sole survivor had been tossed into the water and avoided drowning only by clinging to a floating barrel. Back on shore the days ticked over and transmuted into weeks; the family believed the man drowned and began slowly to mourn him. It was almost a month later when he was sighted staggering along Sixty Mile Beach, entirely naked, scorched with sunburn, dragging a dead gannet by the neck along the sand.

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