To this end a bird watching bomb expert from Germany has been paid to invent a huge gun. The two are eventually immured on Nantucket with Dutiful's hated Aunt Tribulation who turned out to be an impostor hiding in the New World while conniving to remove King James and replace him with a Hanoverian. Dido deals with Captain Casket's obsession (an inverted Moby Dick fever in which a pink whale ecstatically pursues him) and stokes up Dutiful Penitence Casket, his wan and fearful daughter. Nobody's ever bounced out of a prolonged sleep with more energy. She's eleven years old and awakens after a nine month coma aboard the good ship Sarah Casket, a whaler that rescued her from the wreck of the English boat she'd stowed away on. Dido Twait's cockney sounds right at home along with the Nantucket twang. Though more than a fraction tamer than The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the humor is as broad as it was in Black Hearts in Battersea and the plot as thick.
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