![]() ![]() Like an amalgamation of Snow White and Moby Dick's Ishmael she is found in a wooden straw-filled coffin-like box on the other side of the world, north of East Cape on the Russian side of the Bering Straits (the East Cape - Cape Dezhnev since 1898 - was then popular with whalers). ![]() It is now ten months later, and the poor lass has lain in a coma after having been picked up by the whaler Sarah Casket. When we last saw Dido she'd been lost at sea somewhere off the northeast coast of England, presumed dead. ![]() What you need is the main ingredient, the protein in the dish, and in Night Birds in Nantucket that is provided by the indomitable figure of Dido Twite. Take a dash of Jules Verne, add essence of Charles Dickens, several pinches of Herman Melville and season with adventure. Writing a successful novel is sometimes a little like inventing a recipe for a special dish. ![]()
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