5/27/2023 0 Comments The north water book reviewThe North Water is a brutal book beyond anything I have read in many a year. We have flashbacks of Sumner’s past that tells us about the character who now finds himself embroiled on a voyage that is hellish beyond description. There is a killer on board and I do not mean someone killing whales we have a drunken cold-blooded killer on the loose on board ship. This is the story of the ill-fated voyage of the Volunteer.ĭuring the voyage to the bone chilling waters of the Arctic we get to meet the various characters on board, a dubious captain all keen to hunt whales and make money. Drax is nothing more than a drunk and a filthy brutal thug and much more besides. Patrick has a past as an army surgeon, now broke with nothing better to do than join a hellish group on board ship setting sail to the freezing waters of the Arctic to hunt Whales.Īlso on board is Henry Drax a harpooner. On board is the usual mix of whalers but also on board for the first time is Patrick Sumner. The setting for Ian McGuire’s second novel is aboard the 19 th – Century Yorkshire based whaling ship Volunteer but something is not right. As bone chilling tale on board a whaling ship and is as chilling as the Arctic waters.
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