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Just past the first two chapters on place and family, on never at any moment feeling safe or seen as a child, of resigning yourself to that constant fear and chaos... this book is doing so much so well.

In which we learn 'a stern chase' in a long chase and not a particularly eager, grim, or most determined pursuit as one might previously have thought.

“I must confess that to reach the poop she would have to traverse the holy quarterdeck, and your not unnatural apprehension—I shall not say your timidity—will no doubt require you to have a carronade, loaded with grape, trained upon her as she does so.” Normal sentence!