Dark Water

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

''Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the frontiers of the human'' Hilary Mantel

Boston, 1833

Aboard the USS Orbis as it embarks from Boston and surges south to round Cape Horn, Hiram Carver takes up his first position as ship''s doctor. Callow a...