![]() ![]() This is akin to the method used in Witch Child that Rees is very adept at. The story is told in the first person with Nancy narrating her and Minerva’s lives. She must continue onwards while ever widening the gap between her and the young man whose ring she wears about her neck. ![]() But in her dreams Nancy can see her betrothed on her trail. There she and Minerva make the decision to join the pirate ship that is on its way to the harbour. Help comes in the form of her befriended slave Minerva who, along with others, ensures Nancy’s safe passage to the outlaw camp. When Nancy meets the man whom she is to marry she takes an immediate disliking to him, his villainous ways and middle age causing her to fear for her life. ![]() When her father dies she is shipped to Jamaica where her brothers plan to marry her off in order to make money from a good alliance. ![]() Nancy Kington lives in England in the time that Africans were taken as slaves and whites took over the Caribbean for their own selfish interests. As for myself I found it at random in a bookstore. Pirates! isn’t as well known as it’s predecessor, Witch Child, in fact it’s likely that unless one is a dedicated fan of Rees they won’t know of it at all. Celia Rees is a popular writer of young adult fiction. ![]()
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