The two stories get told side by side until it all comes together in a most surprising way - no spoilers from me!Each story is compelling with richly drawn characters and plots that slowly draw towards each other. Much like the young protagonist, Luke, you feel a touch off center and confused at first but as you follow his story and that of the second character, Louise. She Rises is a book that draws you in from the very first sentence. Bold, brilliant, and utterly original, this debut novel is an accomplished and gripping search for identity and survival. She Rises brings to vivid life both land and sea in Georgian England, but explores a thoroughly modern and complex love story. He must learn fast and choose his friends well if he is to survive the brutal hardships of a sailor's life and its many dangers, both up high in the rigging and in the dark belowdecks. Intertwined with Louise's story is that of fifteen-year-old Luke, who is beaten and press-ganged, sent to sea against his will on the warship Essex in the service of His Majesty's Navy. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty yet magnetic mistress. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich serving a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember-after all, it stole away her father and brother.
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