389 pages ;24 cm
A historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters, a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, over three hundred years later, arrives on the same island, discovering the story of an infamous shipwreck.
1.Fate and fatalism--Fiction.2.Folklore--Fiction.3.Mothers--Death--Fiction.4.Orphans--Fiction.5.Secrecy--Fiction.6.Shipwrecks--Fiction.Dynamic Details