Broke Deep

Morgan Capell's life is falling apart by small degrees--his father's dead, his boyfriend dumped him, and his mother's in the grip of dementia. His state of mind isn't helped by his all-too-real recurring nightmare of the wreck of the Troilus, a two-hundred-year-old ship he's been dreaming about since his teenage years.

The story of the Troilus is interwoven with the Capell family history. When amateur historian Dominic Watson inveigles himself into seeing the ship's timbers which make up par...