No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. ‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLSĪged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. ‘A jaw-dropping and thrilling real-life adventure on the high seas’ SARAH BROWN '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 restless and inquiring mind’ SIMON WINCHESTER, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author from the bestselling author of 'What Does Jeremy Think?, Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape. ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing.
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