Novel set on CORFU
The Skipper’s Child
Location(s): Belgium, France, Netherlands
Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
Era(s): 1960s
Arie Kornet hates school holidays on his family’s barge, the Rival, which is home to Arie, his two sisters, his father, and his deaf mother. But because his father is a commercial skipper, all they do is travel from one place to another on the Dutch and other European canals and waterways – the ‘binnenvaart’. Arie is intensely frustrated with it all. It seems there is nothing for him to do, and no escape. That is, until an unexpected brush with Russian secret agents, international plots, and a startling stow-away bring him far more excitement than his dreams had ever bargained
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