Ten Degrees of Reckoning

An international bestseller. A remarkable true story of one woman's courage. . In 1993 Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed... . After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy her back broken and paralyzed below the waist Judith miraculously survived winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping unbelievable yet true Judith's story of courage survival and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds of shattering loss and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family.