![]() From there, a series of vignettes narrated in turn by Isla and the man who waved-Bo, the ship's chief cook-reveal in small, earthy details how kind people can be. (The precise nature of the domestic difficulties will emerge but is not the main focus here.) Watching as Nella Dan docks in Hobart, Isla notices a man on deck waving to her. The implication is that Mum has left the children’s father. ![]() ![]() Teenager Isla, her unnamed younger brother and her mother (known only as Mum) move to Hobart, Tasmania. In Parrett’s second novel, the Nella Dan brings together, however temporarily, a broken Australian family and a Danish sailor. ![]() The red-hulled Antarctic supply ship Nella Dan, like its fictional counterpart, was decommissioned and sunk in the mid-1980s after running aground on the sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie. A soulful fictional homage to a beloved Antarctic vessel, from Australian author Parrett ( Past the Shallows, 2014). ![]()
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