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 up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool gulls wheeling & crying over our heads calling good-bye... That is all I remember of Engl&. When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister his country & everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets & by his talent for boat-design & sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie
- a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together? I was there on the quayside to see Allie take her out for the first time saw her dancing through the waves & I knew I'd never built a finer boat.