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When Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney's child, Nicholas, dedicated suicide aged 23, Paul and his partner, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the central. Nicholas had been a highly gifted, promising son, although he previously struggled to keep his brain above water sometimes as severe major depression slowly but surely dragged him down over a long time. Nicholas was a keen sailor, with many of his posthumously publicized writings getting a nautical theme. To try to reconnect with this happier memory space of his child, Paul decides to set out - only - on a voyage he would have liked them to have embarked after collectively. Cape Horn is the sailor's Everest. Probably one of the most remote and bleak elements of the world, it takes courage, physical durability, and mental fortitude to face its tempestuous seas, violent winds, and barren panorama. During the voyage Paul confirms a satisfaction and a way to face the near future without his child. Poignant, moving, funny, thought provoking, and amazingly written, Paul's bank account of preparing his own course through apparently insurmountable grief produces a powerful story. Injected with humor, perceptiveness, and beliefs, recounting his highs, lows, frustrations, and triumphs, the honesty and openness of Paul's story makes this very personal bank account a universal story.
