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It's the late 1980s. Isla and her younger brother, Peter, are with their mother traveling to Hobart, a major city within the Australian state of Tasmania. It's there that they hope to start a new life, one that might help the mother overcome her crippling depression. Also coming into port is the eye-catching red scientific research ship Nella Dan. On board is Bo, the ship's cook. The ship's crew is on temporary leave, taking a break from their researching trip around Antarctica. Bo befriends Isla's mother, who quickly offers to take him on as a house guest while he's in town. In the weeks he stays with them all, Bo quietly becomes a sort of solid father figure to the lonely Isla, He tells stories of his adventures on the ship and of his childhood in his native Denmark and phrases them in such a way that they subtlety help to soothe Isla's constant anxiety about life's persistent uncertainties and upheavals.

When not talking of the relationship Bo has with this family in Tasmania, the story continues to follow him whenever he returns to the Nella Dan. On one winter trip, the ship gets stuck in ice and the crew is forced to wait it out for 2 months before a Japanese ice breaker ship is able to come by and dig them out. In the meantime, the reader gets an intimate look at life on a ship and the comraderie that builds from the close quarters. Once freed, looking back on the hardships of those months ends up making the crew deeply, eternally grateful and humbled for all of life's "little things" from then on. As Bo repeatedly finds himself thinking, "Never thought I'd be so happy for an apple!" Later on, the story also illustrates how a crew can get so attached to a ship as to actually feel / attach an almost human spirit to the metal. Pavett does this so well that I felt myself getting a little choked up over the fate of the ship!

Pavett was inspired to craft this novel after hearing the story of the real-life ship Nella Dan, built in Denmark but used by the Australian government from 1953-1987. It sailed longer and farther than any other Antarctic expedition ship in history. Pavett's tale is poetically, quietly told in a pace that I found similar to Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. If you were a fan of that book, I personally found this story even better. I really liked the character of Bo, the quiet solidness he had about him, and the sort of surrogate father-daughter relationship that grew between him and Isla. I also liked the descriptions of life on the ship and the friendships that developed between the crew. I found myself picking out my favorites in the crew and being bummed when one of the guys didn't make it to the end of the story :-( Parrett's writing felt pretty cinematic itself, but I could definitely see this, with the right cinematographer brought on, being made into a pretty stunning movie!


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When the Night Comes 9780733626586 Books Reviews

I enjoyed this book immensely. It opened my eyes to the Antartica and to a ship's personality. Nella is a great character.
Excellent, I think a lot of research went into it.
Brilliant writing, evocative and insightful. A surprising choice of subject matter but well developed and memorable.
Interesting book. Learnt about the background to the Nella Dan, and also recognised much of Hobart as described.
Great read, Favell Parrett told a great story and transported you to Artctic Circle and to the Nella Dan and life on board.
What a beautiful, magic book! In telling the story of the Nella Dan's last two summers in the Antarctic and it's final trip to Macquarie Island, Favel Perrett has evocatively recreated what it is to sail to the ends of the Earth and witness the hauntingly beautiful landscape.

The little red ship, Nella Dan was leased to the Australian government for 26 years and spent more time than any other ship in the Antarctic. Many of her crew were Danish, like Bo the fictional cook in the novel who befriends Isla the young girl who tells her account of Nella Dan's stop overs in Hobart. Isla and her brother have recently moved to Hobart with their mother for a fresh start following her divorce from their father. When Bo befriends their mother and stays with the family during his stop overs, he takes Isla and her brother to visit the ship and tells them stories of his adventures at sea and visiting Antarctica. Isla comes to look forward to the visits of the little red ship and Bo, the man who is kind to them and teaches Isla that anything is possible in life.

Like Antarctica itself, the writing is sharp and clear and the story haunting. I especially loved the references to the movie Local Hero, one of my all time favourites, set in another windswept place where small kindnesses make a difference to people's lives. I also enjoyed the inclusion of tributes to Nella Dan from members of her crew and expeditioners included in the afterword, which showed the fondness people felt for the little red ship.
This book tells two stories, one about a girl in Hobart, Tasmania, and one about the Danish-built and crewed ice breaking ship the Nella Dan. The two stories touch and run parallel, but do not really entwine. It gives a wonderful description of life on the ship down in the Antarctic and the role it played in the lives of the scientists it serviced, but more personally how the ship was so central to the lives of the crew. It really was a comfortable and well loved home for those men for many months at a time. At the same time the girl's story tells of a child from a broken marriage living with her mother and younger brother, trying to make a new life away from an abusive father. The cook off the Nella Dan meets the mother and subsequently a number of the Danish sailors visit the house with much laughter and friendship. The girl loves the cook, and the feeling is definitely reciprocated, but the relationship between the mother and the cook is not strong enough to keep him in Tasmania. Eventually he returns to Denmark, to his island home, but he often recalls the girl and she has learned so much from him about the Antarctc that she becomes a scientist and travels there herself. A lovely bond between a man needing a family and a girl needing a good man as a father figure. This is not creepy or unsettling at all, but rather a really good story well written about realistic characters and a real ship.
It's the late 1980s. Isla and her younger brother, Peter, are with their mother traveling to Hobart, a major city within the Australian state of Tasmania. It's there that they hope to start a new life, one that might help the mother overcome her crippling depression. Also coming into port is the eye-catching red scientific research ship Nella Dan. On board is Bo, the ship's cook. The ship's crew is on temporary leave, taking a break from their researching trip around Antarctica. Bo befriends Isla's mother, who quickly offers to take him on as a house guest while he's in town. In the weeks he stays with them all, Bo quietly becomes a sort of solid father figure to the lonely Isla, He tells stories of his adventures on the ship and of his childhood in his native Denmark and phrases them in such a way that they subtlety help to soothe Isla's constant anxiety about life's persistent uncertainties and upheavals.

When not talking of the relationship Bo has with this family in Tasmania, the story continues to follow him whenever he returns to the Nella Dan. On one winter trip, the ship gets stuck in ice and the crew is forced to wait it out for 2 months before a Japanese ice breaker ship is able to come by and dig them out. In the meantime, the reader gets an intimate look at life on a ship and the comraderie that builds from the close quarters. Once freed, looking back on the hardships of those months ends up making the crew deeply, eternally grateful and humbled for all of life's "little things" from then on. As Bo repeatedly finds himself thinking, "Never thought I'd be so happy for an apple!" Later on, the story also illustrates how a crew can get so attached to a ship as to actually feel / attach an almost human spirit to the metal. Pavett does this so well that I felt myself getting a little choked up over the fate of the ship!

Pavett was inspired to craft this novel after hearing the story of the real-life ship Nella Dan, built in Denmark but used by the Australian government from 1953-1987. It sailed longer and farther than any other Antarctic expedition ship in history. Pavett's tale is poetically, quietly told in a pace that I found similar to Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. If you were a fan of that book, I personally found this story even better. I really liked the character of Bo, the quiet solidness he had about him, and the sort of surrogate father-daughter relationship that grew between him and Isla. I also liked the descriptions of life on the ship and the friendships that developed between the crew. I found myself picking out my favorites in the crew and being bummed when one of the guys didn't make it to the end of the story -( Parrett's writing felt pretty cinematic itself, but I could definitely see this, with the right cinematographer brought on, being made into a pretty stunning movie!