From the bestselling author of Private Peaceful and War Horse comes a lyrical, life-affirming novel that asks: how far would you go to find yourself? “There were dozens of us on the ship, all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye… That is all I remember of England.” Shipped to Australia after WWII at just six years old, orphan Arthur Hobhouse loses his sister, his country and everything he has ever known. Alongside fellow orphan Marty, he overcomes enormous hardship, ultimately saved by the extraordinary people he meets along the way and by his gift for boat-design and sailing. Now grown, he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie – a solo yacht designed to carry her back to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the scattered threads of Arthur’s life finally come together? “I was there on the quayside to see Allie take her out for the first time, saw her dancing through the waves, and I knew I’d never built a finer boat.”
ISBN 13: 9780007230587
Author: Michael Morpurgo
