At one point she says she’ll try to describe a whale hunt although she fears her tale will compare badly with ‘Mr Melville’. She has the gift of writing about extraordinary events in a completely matter of fact way. The family has its tragedies and Mary herself is disappointed in love, yet she is without self pity. She describes her father ‘Fearless’ Davidson and his crew of whale men, her family and the locals in Eden. ‘Rush Oh!’ is apparently the whalers’ cry to man the boats when a whale is sighted. Mary is writing what she calls a memoir, thirty years after the events of 1908 in the whaling community at Eden, NSW. I was enchanted by this book from the first page, charmed by the unusual setting, the strange story and the narrative voice.
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