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The Voyage of the Morning Light

This sweeping story is set aboard the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912.

Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.

Inspired by a true story, Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay’s examination of the idea of “difference” — between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 400
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781324007067
  • Genres
  • fiction, canada, historical, family, travel
  • Release date
  • 2020