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‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood

www.theguardian.com ‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood

In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …

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  • "He took me to be examined by a thin man in a white coat named Dr Senellart. “She has a broken nose, a fractured skull and there is blood trapped inside the swelling on her head,” he told my parents when we rejoined them in the waiting room.

    I slipped my hand inside Dad’s. “What if we do nothing?” he asked." yea