In My Wildest Dreams by Leslie Thomas

Author:Leslie Thomas [ Leslie Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781407097114
Publisher: Random House

I had never been to sea, apart from crossing to the Isle of Man on the ferry, also from Liverpool, but my father's and my grandfather's blood must have been there in my veins because I found I enjoyed it; I watched the Liver Birds disappear into the ragged sky and then turned and sniffed the raw ocean. Outward bound, I whispered to myself, I was outward bound. That day, and for three days after, it was raw indeed. Black waves, with sharp white edges, lumbered from the horizon and battered the large ship, throwing her this way and that and sometimes in both directions at once. The sky shrieked, the rain deluged, landward lighthouses flashed distantly. Sheltering in a companionway hatch I watched the drama spill across the sea. My face was wet with salt, my hair felt as if it would be torn off by the gale. Hanging onto a stanchion or a rope I let myself sway and dip with the deck. Sometimes I hummed 'Fingal's Gave'.

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