SuitabookTo brave the seas
David McRobbie
- Reading
- Read together if the wartime peril feels intense; pause after dangerous scenes to check how your reader is finding them, without assuming the events are described graphically.
- Themes
- War and service at sea: Fifteen-year-old Adam joins Britain's Merchant Navy in 1940 and travels with an Atlantic convoy. The overview establishes wartime service as the premise, but not whether the book presents enlistment positively, critically or otherwise.
- Friendship and enemies: During his journeys, Adam meets enemies face to face and makes friends, some described as lasting a lifetime. Relationships are part of the story, but the overview does not show how enmity or friendship develops.
- Worth knowing
- War and maritime danger are central: the overview mentions submarines, a torpedo, shipwreck and darkness during a sinking. How vividly or distressingly these events are depicted is not established.