512 pages
English language
Published 2014 by Penguin Random House.
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
5 stars
(1 review)
The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.
Subjects
- Swallows, fiction
- Children's fiction
- Boats and boating, fiction
- Europe, fiction