Michael Morpurgo Alone on a wide wide sea

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• 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.