Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Chaos Walkingtrilogy, A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Release. Read our full review | Purchase a copy of And the Ocean Was Our Sky On closer inspection he is grasping a gold disc covered with symbols that Captain Alexandra believes is a sign, a prophecy that they are being led towards a show down with the infamous Toby Wick. When the pod come across a wrecked ship, they stumble upon a human hand sticking out of the hull. Because this is the story of how we found him.’ ‘For I, a lowly but eager Third Apprentice was about to begin the final hunt that ever was. Not only is this mythic tale visually stunning, with illustrations from Rovina Cai but it’s a story that will have readers transported to the depths of the ocean, in an exploration of human nature through the story of Bathsheba the whale.īathsheba is a hunter, she didn’t want to be a hunter, but it is her destiny. Third apprentice in a pod led by the legendary and fierce, Captain Alexandra, she is about to undertake the most important hunt of her life. This new offering from best-selling author, Patrick Ness, takes the Melville story and turns it on its head, transporting you to another world deep below the ocean. In a reference to Herman Melville’s classic, Moby Dick, ‘Call me Bathsheba’ is the first line of And the Ocean Was Our Sky.
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