One morning over breakfast, Suzanne Heywood’s Yorkshireman father announced their family would soon be leaving the UK. He wanted to spend the next three years sailing round the world, recreating Captain Cook’s third voyage.
But what was pitched to the then-six-year-old as “the adventure of a lifetime” actually became her 12-year nightmare.
After sailing through storms – one so brutal that Suzanne’s skull was smashed when their boat Wavewalker was overturned – she describes growing up deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water.
For months at a time, no
