{"product_id":"9781529929997","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle - Xiaolu Guo (Paperback) 19-03-2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick' Daily Telegraph 'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i News 'A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick' Philip Hoare  Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective - perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver   In 1843, in a small village on the stormy Kent coast, Ishmaelle is born. She grows up swimming with dolphins and eventually - desperate for a life at sea - she disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.  As the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale Moby Dick...  'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy  'Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style... Call Me Ishmaelle takes us on a courageous journey: it's no aping of a classic, rather a vision of a young woman sailing out to discover not a whale but her own self. And in that, it happily succeeds' Daily Telegraph  'An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you're in the hands of a genuine storyteller' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Xiaolu Guo \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 19-03-2026","offer_id":56666560856444,"sku":"9781529929997","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9781529929997.jpg?v=1776871992","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9781529929997","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}