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'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES
'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing ... a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world's great oceans - but is also the inspiring story of the developing of a…
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I read most sailing/cruising books that I come across, but this was something really different. Suzanne's account of the decade she spent as a child, sailing around the world with her brother and parents is anything but the romantic idyll you might expect. The narrative takes on ever darker, more gothic undertones as it gradually becomes evident that Suzanne's parents care little for the dreams and aspirations of their daughter as they set about fulfilling their own dream of following in the wake of Captain Cook around the world. Particularly poignant is a moment when Suzanne's father simply confiscates the…
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