The International Bestsellera Times Best Memoir Of 2023grippingly Vivid And Pacey The Timesa Seven-year Old Girl On A Seventy-foot Yacht, For Ten Years, Over Fifty Thousand Miles Of Sailing Simon Winchester''an Astonishing Almost Day-by-day Account Of A Hazardous Journey And Its Legacy Telegraphthis Is A Story Of An Epic Childhood Journey, So Exciting And So Shocking It Is Hard To Know Whether Youre Reading About A Dream Or A Nightmare Wavewalker Is Thrilling, Horrifying, Beautifully Written I Couldnt Put It Down Ed Ballsaged Just Seven, Suzanne Heywood Set Sail With Her Parents And Brother On A Three-year Voyage Around The World. What Followed Turned Instead Into A Decade-long Way Of Life, Through Storms, Shipwrecks, Reefs And Isolation, With Little Formal Schooling. No One Else Knew Where They Were Most Of The Time And No State Showed Any Interest In What Was Happening To The Children.suzanne Fought Her Parents, Longing To Return To England And To Education And Stability.