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Seeking better futures beyond their cheerless and constrained North London lives, Bert turns to soldiering, Minnie explores the Parisian demimonde, and Hanny sails away on a merchant steamer. The writing is uncluttered and fluid, the style leavened with a Dickensian lightness of touch. Once he has Hanny on a ship, McFee -- a steamship engineer himself -- opens the valves and charges the story with the details of steam and men and sea that he so clearly loves. He does suffer from a Victorian reticence to allow his characters much emotion, but he is sympathetic and nonjudgmental towards all of them.