Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo

Arthur Hobhouse has lived such an amazing life. From being transported to Australia as an orphan to start a new life, leaving behind his sister Kitty and being given a key-the only thing he has to prove that she was real, to being treated like a slave at Coopers Station and finding a 'brother', and living at Auntie Meg's house with the other animals she took in, even joining the navy, then falling in love when it just seemed easier to end it all. But there is a constant theme of the sea, which he loved so much and spent all his life with. So, when Arthur knows that his time is coming near, he and his daughter Allie write down his life story. Then we turn to Allie, and see her story. Of how she sailed across the world in her fathers memory, and met her albatross. But, she does it most importantly, to find Kitty, prove that she was real, and discover what that key even did.

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea is one of Michael Morpurgo's disappointing books. I don't like Michael Morpurgo books. No matter how good they start off, they always end in sadness. Especially in this. It just felt like there were unnecessary deaths that made me want to stop reading it. I hate when the authors kill off characters just for the sake of it, and I thought that Morpurgo did that a lot in this book. He does that in all his books though, which is why I don't really enjoy reading them. It was an OK plot, kinda cliche, and could be good by any other author, but I just couldn't enjoy it. And it was a hard book to read, I had to force myself to re-read it. And I think I might have given it away, just because I can't stand it. So, this book, I definitely would not read again.

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