Título: Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free
Autor: Suzanne Heywood
Sinopse: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023
‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing … a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world’s great oceans – but is also the inspiring story of the developing of a restless and inquiring mind’ SIMON WINCHESTER
'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH
‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLS
Aged 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. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK.
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
‘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*
‘An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance . . . an engrossing book that pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the “Wavewalker School of the Sea”’TLS
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free”, de Suzanne Heywood, publicado pela editora William Collins, em 2023 e com 416 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: William Collins
Páginas: 416
Ano: 2023-10-24
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0008648387
ISBN13: 9780008648381
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora William Collins apresentam uma experiência de leitura marcada pela combinação entre clássicos da literatura e obras que exploram a história, a natureza e a reflexão filosófica. O catálogo traz narrativas que transitam entre o imaginativo e o real, com personagens que vão desde figuras icônicas da ficção infantil até relatos históricos detalhados e memórias pessoais intensas. A linguagem varia entre o envolvente e o didático, com textos que convidam tanto ao encantamento quanto à análise crítica, oferecendo um ritmo que pode ser tanto contemplativo quanto tenso, conforme o tema abordado. As obras frequentemente exploram conflitos humanos profundos, sejam eles de caráter emocional, histórico ou existencial, em cenários que vão do bucólico ao marítimo e do fantástico ao filosófico.
