Title: Bloody Jack : being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber
Author : L. A. Meyer
Publisher: Harcourt
Year of Publication: 2002
Series: Bloody Jack
About the book:
Mary Faber is an orphan living in the streets of London in the early 1900s. When the leader of her gang is killed, she puts on his clothes, names herself Jack and sneaks aboard the HMS Dolphin.
The novel follows Mary’s adventures on the HMS Dolphin, exploring her struggle to maintain her Jacky persona and her clashes with the pirates on board (which earns her the name ‘Bloody Jack’).
The novel is praised as being an engaging novel with a lot of historical and nautical detail of piracy in the 18th century. This novel is the first of the Bloody Jack series, which has so far spanned nine books (the ninth to be published in October 2011).
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