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

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It is finished, Madame,” said Dr Senellart, following me in. “These,” he said, pointing to the shadows under my eyes, “will go in time. Your daughter is very brave.” I was nine and we had been travelling for two years and 223 days. Our trip was supposed to finish. But Dad had other ideas In the epilogue Suzanne writes that her parents described her upbringing as 'privileged' which really sums up the void between the writer's experience and the narrative her parents created for themselves. CNHI.IT Company Profile & Executives - CNH Industrial N.V. - Wall Street Journal". www.wsj.com . Retrieved 14 October 2021. I slumped against the seat. Mum folded a sheet of paper into quarters, ripping it along the creases. She pushed the pieces across the table towards us. An extraordinary story of adventure and self-discovery. Suzanne Heywood’s determination to get an education despite all the obstacles she faced leads her on a path of true freedom’ Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE

When I set sail from England with my parents, brother and three crew members in the summer of 1976, I was seven and thought the trip was going to be like an extended, exciting summer holiday. Once we’d settled into our ocean routines, Mum began giving Jon and me some schoolwork to do in the mornings, usually a maths or English worksheet. It was convenient that we were only a year apart in age, she said, since it meant she could teach us together. When I asked about other subjects, such as history, art or science, she said she wasn’t going to bother with those – if we were good at maths and English, everything else would sort itself out. Anyway, our voyage was like a massive geography field trip.There was, nevertheless, an emotional hurdle to overcome with the book. She had to confront her parents about her version of events (she does, in fact, draw on memories of crew members too). ‘My family would never ever talk about [any] of it. Whenever I tried, the line would be, “Don’t – it upsets your mother.”’ 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 Dad returned to Tauranga, and I settled into a routine. Each morning, Jon came into the main bach for breakfast and I asked about his plans for the day, though he rarely said much. After he left to catch the school bus, I tidied up and took my books out to study on the veranda overlooking the lake. John Stamos pays tribute to Matthew Perry as he reminisces over sweet gesture on Friends set 20 years ago: 'I never forgot that'

I knew Mum didn't like me,' Suzanne writes, 'a dull ache I'd long accepted, though the pain of it sometimes became acute.' She was desperate to get an education, but when they moored up in Hawaii for a couple of years, her parents didn’t want her to attend the local school, she says. Do you want to try some ship’s biscuits?” asked Dad, and when I nodded, he showed me where he’d hidden the tins under the step outside the main head, the name for the ship’s toilet. Ah,” he said, “we have a draw.” He looked at Jon and me, and I sat up straight, ready to explain my choice. I just finished reading the extract from the Guardian's what we are reading now section. I was so drawn in that now I'm dying to read the rest.Nothing would ever be as terrifying again. In 2021, Heywood threatened to take the Government to court over the handling of a review into the lobbying scandal following the collapse of financier Lex Greensill’s Greensill Capital. ‘My experience on the boat and standing up to my parents in a quiet way, and then keeping it very fact-based, enabled me to stand up for Jeremy.’ A classic memoir of childhood. This is a book that every parent should read to consider the consequences of their midlife crises, and every child should read to learn how to deal with impossible mums and dads, as well as boils and barnacles’ Mail on Sunday 5* Oxford was intrigued by this girl who'd managed to educate herself on a boat. She was invited to an interview at Somerville College