Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865together with Certain Other Veracious Tales of Various Sorts

A tender, elegiac novel set in the wreckage of the Civil War, where a rotting ship becomes an elegant metaphor for a broken world. The old admiral has spent his life at sea, and now finds himself bound to an unfinished vessel that was meant to be his crowning glory, now colonised by rot and memory. His granddaughter Emily has grown up in this suspended world of salt and silence, her innocent heart untouched by anything beyond the ship's weathered timbers. When Richard Revere, a wounded officer seeking refuge, arrives on the dock, he brings with him the promise of a life Emily has only dreamed of. But Barry, the loyal sailor who has loved her in quiet desperation, watches the foundation of his world shift. Brady writes with sentimental grace about what it means to be left behind by history, to tend something beautiful as it falls to pieces, and to choose between the safe past and an uncertain future.