E208｜A story of resilience and surviving someone else’s dream with Suzanne Heywood, author of Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Imagine as a seven-year-old waving goodbye to everything you knew – your friends, your toys, your dog, your education – to set sail in a wooden-hulled schooner on the pretence of recreating a voyage undertaken by Captain James Cook. Life at sea might initially sound exciting, exhilarating even. But a dream can quickly become a nightmare when it involves the jeopardy of sailing west to east across the Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Suzanne Heywood’s childhood wasn’t just extraordinary, i...