Consider the elements a child needs to thrive: love, nutritious food, fresh water, schooling, safety, stability. Now think about an existence regularly bereft of almost all these crucial components and you come some way to understanding the privations Lady (Suzanne) Heywood, 54, endured during a childhood spent at sea, sailing 47,000 nautical miles over 10 years, the equivalent of circumnavigating the globe twice.But wasn't it a glorious adventure? Certainly her estranged father Gordon Cook, now 87, who captained Wavewalker — the boat in which he and his family were cooped up in suffocating and uneasy proximity for a decade — chooses only to celebrate the heroics.Gordon dragooned his wife Mary and their young children Suzanne and Jon into joining his reckless escapade and wrote an autobiography focusing on his expert seamanship. It begins with the day Wavewalker was capsized in the Indian Ocean by a giant 50ft wall of water, then recounts how he valiantly navigated the stricken vessel to safety.
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