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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
This had been on my TBR for two years and I finally read it in advance of hearing Morpurgo speak at the Borris Festival. It’s about British orphan Arthur who is separated from his sister after WW2 and sent to Australia as part of the programme of child migrants. He survives cruelty, abuse and exploitation on a working farm and later discovers he has a talent for yacht design. 60 years later, Arthur’s daughter Allie sets sail alone in a yacht designed by her father, resolved to find his long-lost sister in England.
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Well, I loved this story - it is both sad and joyful but above all, life-affirming. As I’m learning to expect with Morpurgo, this is primarily about love, loss, identity and memory. What I like about his writing is how his evocative stories draw the reader in, his characters are believable and while pitched at the right level for younger readers, he doesn’t shy away from important or difficult issues. Tears may have been shed, very satisfied ones though.
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My follow up from this will be to seek out and read The Ancient Mariner, which was beautifully weaved through the story, to very profound effect.
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A gorgeous, special story that’s still lingering in my memory
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Well, I loved this story - it is both sad and joyful but above all, life-affirming. As I’m learning to expect with Morpurgo, this is primarily about love, loss, identity and memory. What I like about his writing is how his evocative stories draw the reader in, his characters are believable and while pitched at the right level for younger readers, he doesn’t shy away from important or difficult issues. Tears may have been shed, very satisfied ones though.
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My follow up from this will be to seek out and read The Ancient Mariner, which was beautifully weaved through the story, to very profound effect.
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A gorgeous, special story that’s still lingering in my memory
This has a beautiful cover but that's about all it has going for it. It was so boring
From BBC Radio 2:
Episode 1 of 4
Arthur Hobhouse and his friend Marty meet for the first time on a boat bound for Australia. They are part of a consignment of child migrants sent from Britain to find new and better lives in Australia. The boys are sent to work at Cooper's Station, under the care of the cruel and vindictive Piggy Bacon.
Episode 2 of 4
Arthur and Marty manage to escape the hands of the vicious, religious sadist Piggy Bacon. They flee into the unforgiving Australian outback where they find a temporary sanctuary with the kind and generous Aunty Megs. They stay with her for 5 years, working on her farm. All goes well for them until they have to leave to make their own way in the wide world.
Episode 3 of 4
Facing hard times, Arthur and Marty turn to drink. Arthur ends up in hospital where he falls in love with a nurse, Zita, marries and has a daughter. Arthur and his daughter Allie decide to build a small boat to sail from Australia to England in search of Arthur's long lost sister Kitty. When Arthur dies unexpectedly, the trip is put on hold until Allie announces that she will make the 15,000 mile journey round the world to find Kitty on her own.
Episode 4 of 4
Allie Hobhouse decides to sail solo to England to look for her Aunty Kitty. She rounds Cape Horn, has an unexpected encounter with a space traveller, is shipwrecked and eventually finds herself in London. Will she find her Aunty Kitty? Find out in this, the final episode of Michael Morpurgo's Alone On A Wide Wide Sea.
Alone On A Wide Wide Sea was written by Michael Morpurgo, adapted for Radio 2 by Ian McMillan and stars Jason Donovan, Olivia Beardsley and Toby Jones.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zqpv0
4* War Horse (War Horse, #1)
3* Private Peaceful
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Episode 1 of 4
Arthur Hobhouse and his friend Marty meet for the first time on a boat bound for Australia. They are part of a consignment of child migrants sent from Britain to find new and better lives in Australia. The boys are sent to work at Cooper's Station, under the care of the cruel and vindictive Piggy Bacon.
Episode 2 of 4
Arthur and Marty manage to escape the hands of the vicious, religious sadist Piggy Bacon. They flee into the unforgiving Australian outback where they find a temporary sanctuary with the kind and generous Aunty Megs. They stay with her for 5 years, working on her farm. All goes well for them until they have to leave to make their own way in the wide world.
Episode 3 of 4
Facing hard times, Arthur and Marty turn to drink. Arthur ends up in hospital where he falls in love with a nurse, Zita, marries and has a daughter. Arthur and his daughter Allie decide to build a small boat to sail from Australia to England in search of Arthur's long lost sister Kitty. When Arthur dies unexpectedly, the trip is put on hold until Allie announces that she will make the 15,000 mile journey round the world to find Kitty on her own.
Episode 4 of 4
Allie Hobhouse decides to sail solo to England to look for her Aunty Kitty. She rounds Cape Horn, has an unexpected encounter with a space traveller, is shipwrecked and eventually finds herself in London. Will she find her Aunty Kitty? Find out in this, the final episode of Michael Morpurgo's Alone On A Wide Wide Sea.
Alone On A Wide Wide Sea was written by Michael Morpurgo, adapted for Radio 2 by Ian McMillan and stars Jason Donovan, Olivia Beardsley and Toby Jones.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zqpv0
4* War Horse (War Horse, #1)
3* Private Peaceful
CR Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
TR An Elephant in the Garden