The North Water
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The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
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Dick Lit, not bad and not good, if you're not into clubbing baby seals you won't be into this book. 3/5
One sentence synopsis... A propulsive journey across the north water on a whaling expedition follows a disgraced Irish surgeon, a psychopathic harpooner, amongst a cast of violent, unfortunate men.
Read it if you like... ‘The Terror' or ‘Godless'.
Dream casting... unfortunately this was a case of knowing who was cast in the show before reading the book. As a result I could only picture Colin Farrell as Drax and Jack O'Connell as Sumner. That being said, I'm not mad.
Very brutal. Great prose that sometimes verges on overwritten but pulls back chapters at a time when in need.
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