A Star to Sail By contains material some people may find upsetting. This includes:
- Mention of past child rape. Not on page and no details are given.
- Past psychological and physical child abuse. Few details are given.
- Possible past child suicide mentioned (it’s left ambiguous whether or not it was suicide).
- A couple of lines that can be read as suicide ideation.
- There is mention of slavery and of a woman being assaulted.
- Typical Age of Sail corporal punishment, child labour, injuries (some fatal), and shipwrecks with multiple drownings.
- Explicit sex and swearing.
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