When the Night Comes : A Novel (Paperback)

from shelleyraec

Favel Parrett's debut, Past the Shallows, caught the imagination of the Australian literary community in 2011. When the Night Comes is her highly anticipated second novel, in which Parrett tells the story of Isla and Bo whose lives are briefly entwined during the late 1980's. Twelve year old Isla...

from PhilipJHunt

Fascinating and odd. There are three main characters in the story. Both written in the first person and since the voice hardly changes between them it can be confusing. One is an adult male sailor, the other a girl. The sailor visits the home of the girl from time to time between trips to the Ant...

from DrApple

This is a charming book told from the perspectives of a young girl, Isla, and a Danish sailor, Bo. Isla lives a lonely life with her mother and younger brother in the small town of Hobart in Tasmania. When her mother brings home Bo, he opens up an entire world that she never knew existed. He desc...

from lesleynicol

This was quite a nice book to read, but it didn't really GO anywhere. The characters could have been interesting, but we really only only got to know the young girl and the sailor. I would like to have known a bit more of the background to the story, such as why the mother went to Hobart and how ...

from Ma_Washigeri

Plus three quarters of a star. The cover had lot of spoilers which was annoying before I even started, and continued to annoy. However it was a satisfying read. I took it slowly, taking each short chapter one at a time. About half way through I wondered how I was so sure that the narrator was a g...