Ken Ball's debut novel A Fisherman's Tale: Men that go down to the sea in ships was a resounding success and now he's back with a second story about Jimmy Major, a young man from a small fishing community on Newfoundland's southwest coast. Readers first met Jimmy in 1937 when he was sixteen and going to sea to make a living as a fisherman, first on a banking schooner and later as skipper of his own vessel. In Ken's second book Will Your Anchor Hold? Jimmy is twenty, living in Harbour Breton, and skipper of the beam trawler Ocean Fancy. He's a married man and he and his wife, Martha, are about to become first time parents. Ken continues Jimmy's story through World War Two, encountering a German submarine out on the Grand Banks, deaths and illnesses, the ups and downs of life on land and at sea, and much much more.