num_pages: 256
description: The hauntingly beautiful story of a young girl transformed by the power of kindness from award-winning author Favel Parrett.Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But for Isla and her brother their mother's sadness and the cold damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything.Then one morning Isla sees a red ship. That colour lights her day. And when a sailor from the ship befriends her mother he shares his stories with them all - of Antarctica his home in Denmark and life onboard. Like the snow white petrels that survive in the harshest coldest place this lonely girl at the bottom of the world will learn that it is possible to go anywhere be anything. But she will also find out that it is just as easy to lose it all.For Isla those two long summers will change everything.Favel Parrett delivers an evocative and gently told story about the power fear and kindness have to change lives.
language: English
title: When the Night Comes
publisher: Hachette Australia