Alone On A Wide Wide Sea

Morpurgo, Michael

£6.99

How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful and War Horse.

Out of stock

Publish Date: 04/06/2007
ISBN: 9780007230587 Category: Tag:

Description

How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful and War Horse.

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.

When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty, Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets and by his talent for boat-design and sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie – a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the 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.

Additional information

Weight 300 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 23 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

312

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J