Returning from his father's funeral, Ralph suddenly remembers a
childhood voyage on the Armorica, a modern liner bound for
Adelaide. Travelling with Ralph and his mother is the glamorous
American, Mr Chaunteyman, who has lured them away from Ralph's
father. But the journey turns out to be less of an adventure and
more of an ordeal. As a small boy, Ralph manages to explore the
ship unnoticed, while observing the comings and goings of the other
passengers. Looking back on the voyage, however, he wonders whether
he can trust his memory, as the ship's very existence seems to be
called into question. Derek Beaven captures the social niceties of
the 1950s and how World War II had changed life for everyone - life
on the Armorica being a microcosm reflecting the wider world. His
observations of manners and the English class system are
wonderfully accurate without being cliched. (Kirkus UK)
The second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed
Newton's Niece (1994). On an ocean liner travelling to Australia in
1959, a young boy witnesses a courtship between two of its
passengers, a relationship that begins to unsettle the others
aboard. Beneath them in the hold, beyond where the dogs and cats
and mynah bird are kept, squats a far more sinister cargo - a
nuclear arms shipment bound for the Outback testing grounds. A
romantic love affair then, on a doomed boat in dangerous oceans, in
the background the bruised and brooding England of the 1950s; a
devastatingly accurate examination of English class and manners; a
story about national and domestic violence and its consequences.
Brimming with unforgettable descriptions of the seas, its animals,
its weather and the ports stopped at along the way, Acts of Mutiny
establishes Derek Beaven as one of England's finest new writers.
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