Wavewalker: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTELLING TRUE-STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND EDUCATION

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I read an extract in The Guardian and waited impatiently for publication day, I’ve been going for long walks so I had more opportunities to listen - it’s so gripping. When my father turned up in New Zealand a few days later, we went back to the immigration department in Tauranga. Probably,” I said, trying to put the lifejacket on without moving my head or touching the swelling above my eye.

I wish that the author would have given more commentary on her life events as the book went on and not waited till the end.Chief Executive of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society, Commodore Malcolm Williams CBE RN said: "We had some exceptional award winners this year.

The 70 foot schooner Wavewalker skippered by Gordon with his wife Mary, two very young children, Suzanne and Jonathan, and two crewmen was on passage to Australia halfway through 'The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage 1776 - 1976'.

If there are two meta themes in the book, they are the transformative power of education and this question of the rights of a child versus the decisions made by their parents. For nine months, we lived alone in a small hut beside a lake in a country in which I only knew one adult (who lived several hours away). For those of you who are regular sailors talk of sextants may seem somewhat dated or an attempt to turn the clock back before GPS just to add to the challenge and excitement.