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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
When seven-year old Suzanne Heywood (nee Cook) was informed by her father one morning over breakfast in 1976 that she, her five-year-old brother, Jon, and their parents, Gordon and Mary, were going to sail round the world, retracing their namesake Captain Cook's voyage, 'the spoonful of cornflakes paused on the way to my mouth,' she recalls. REVEALED: The 'super comfortable' power leggings from Sweaty Betty that gym goers can't get enough of In 1976, 7-year-old Heywood set sail from Plymouth, England, with her parents and brother, Jon. Their itinerary seemed simple: Take Wavewalker, the family boat, and follow the oceanic path sailed by famed Capt. James Cook 200 years prior. Once aboard, however, the voyage proved to be far less straightforward than they anticipated. The unrelenting ocean was sometimes generous to the family, sending adventure and elegant marine life for them to behold, but in many other moments, it caused turmoil, taking out its rage on the boat, the family, and a host of crewmembers who joined them at various ports. Their journey ultimately extended beyond the three years initially planned; though the family was evenly divided on whether to continue the adventure, her father decided they would go on. “This isn’t a democracy. It’s a benevolent dictatorship,” he explained. “The captain always gets the deciding vote.” They remained at sea for seven more years, during which time they covered 47,000 nautical miles, “equivalent to circumnavigating the globe twice.” Using maps and counting the days spent at sea as signposts, Heywood transports readers into her world, viewed through a porthole. Like the waters they traversed, familial relationships became choppy when the author grew from girlhood to near adulthood. “My parents [were] caught up in their own needs,” she recalls, relating how her longing for stability changed her from unwitting accomplice to conscientious objector, “frustrated by my impotence and isolation.” She took solace in her correspondence-school studies and eventually earned an offer to stay ashore and study at Oxford. Retelling her story in engaging prose, Heywood asks for neither pity nor sympathy; rather, she seeks healing and catharsis by retracing a childhood lost at sea.
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READ MORE: Couple who quit their careers to sail around the world for a 'couple of years' are still going almost a DECADE later All Suzanne longed for was a bit of geographical stability, friends and an education. None of these were encouraged by her parents 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 restless and inquiring mind’ SIMON WINCHESTER Monstrous' is the adjective Suzanne uses to describe that 40ft killer wave, which would give her nightmares for years. Heywood, Suzanne (2017). Recollections of a Female Archaeologist: A Life of Brenda Swinbank. Blurb Publishing.And she didn't feel that she wanted to do secondary education. So, after that, we didn't really get very much schooling for quite a long time.” Lorraine Kelly shares her devastation as young ITV team member battles terminal cancer two months after welcoming a baby boy: 'We are all deeply saddened'
Her parents' selfishness ratcheted up to new levels. Suzanne was 16 when they sailed off on their own, leaving their two children alone in a house in New Zealand for seven months, with not enough money to live on, telling Suzanne to make all the new bookings for the paying crew, plus doing the driving, cooking, cleaning, shopping and chopping logs with an axe to heat the cold house. This memoir is at times thrilling and at others desperately sad as the author recounts how a planned three year voyage turned into a decade at sea interspersed with periods onshore in other countries during her formative years. What might at first seem like an idyllic childhood turned into anything but as she had to fight for an education and in the end was relieved to escape.Joe Jonas pushes hisdaughters around New York in a fairytale carriage after reaching temporary custody agreement with Sophie Turner a b c d e f g h i j "Heywood, Suzanne Elizabeth, (Lady Heywood)". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281905. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 5 November 2018. David Schwimmer is spotted walking somberly to his NYC apartment after paying tribute to Friends co-star Matthew Perry
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