Alone on a Wilde Wilde Sea. Michael Morpurgo

Format 313 pages, Paperback Published January 1, 2012 by Harper Collins ISBN9780007916368  (ISBN10:0007916361) Language English Книга на английском языке. 130 х 200 mm.  313 стр.     How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke. It was a grey day with drizzle in the air, the great sad cranes bowing to the ship from the docks as we steamed past. That is all I remember of England. . . When orphaned Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. The coming years will test him to his limits, as he endures mistreatment, neg