Alone on a Wide Wide Sea - signed first edition

Morpurgo, Michael

ISBN 10: 0007230567 / ISBN 13: 9780007230563

Published by HarperCollins, 2006

About this Item

Signed by the author on the title page, with dedication. First edition, first impression hardback with dustjacket that is not price-clipped. Some edge-wear to jacket and slight pushing to spine tips. No inscriptions, not ex-library. [abeb].

Seller Inventory # ABE-1693565062931

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea - signed first edition
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007230567
• ISBN 13: 9780007230563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Fiction
  • Signed
  • Michael Morpurgo

About this title

Synopsis

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 ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke. It was a grey day with drizzle in the air, the great sad cranes bowing to the ship from the docks as we steamed past. That is all I remember of England…

When orphaned Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WW II he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. The coming years will test him to his limits, as he endures mistreatment, neglect and forced labour in the Australian outback. But Arthur is also saved, again and again, by his love of the sea. And when he meets a nurse whose father owns a boat-building business, all the pieces of his broken life come together.

Now, at the end of his life, Arthur has built a special boat for his daughter Allie, whose love of the sea is as strong and as vital as her father's. Now Allie has a boat that will take her to England solo, across the world's roughest seas, in search of her father's long-lost sister… Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?

About the Author

Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.