Alone On A Wide Wide Sea

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.