The next talk in the Castle Hill For The Arts series of free author talks will take place on Wednesday, April 21, at 6 PM. It will stream live over Zoom with host Karen Dukess interviewing Sarah Anne Johnson, author of âThe Last Sailor.â
âThe Last Sailorâ is a historical novel about grief, redemption and brotherhood set on the shores of Cape Cod. As the book opens in 1898, all that Nathaniel Boyd wants is to be left alone. His hopes of marriage died years ago, not long after the storms and the seas and the sails took away his youngest brother. The other Boyd brother, Finn, dives headlong into his fish trading company, trying to prove something to himself. When their father asked the brothers to sail a schooner down from Boston to their harbor village, he didnât expect them to bring back a young girl fleeing her home, much less one who slips off the boat and nearly drowns. The men take Rachel to the nearest home to the harborâthat of Nathanielâs fir