The 1880s are drawing to a close, and 14- year-old Daniel Bones fears that the prospects for him and his younger brother Will may be dimming with the century.For the motherless sons of a drunken blacksmith, life on a barren spit of land reaching into the Essex estuary holds little promise. Until one evening, from out of the water, there emerges the astonishing figure of Captain Clarke B... A gloriously moving and entertaining, picaresque debut novel, inspired by a real historical figure.