Secrets of a Whitby girl
By: Jessica Blair
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: North Yorkshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780750534475
Subjects: Ship captains; Family secrets; Fiction; Whaling; History
Description: 1832. Sarah is sixteen when her mother tragically dies, an event that has huge repercussions for her, her sisters Arabella and Harriet, and brother Charley. Arabella is ordered by their father to assume the domestic role her mother had filled - something she fears will destroy her hoped-for relationship with John Sharp, captain of her father's whale ship. Little does she know that Harriet plans to ensnare John and marry him. Charley too has his own escape plan: determined to forge a life at sea against his father's wishes, he stows away ...