Suzanne Heywood was 7 in 1976 when her family set off on a 70-foot boat named Wavewalker, following the nautical path of famed British explorer Capt. James Cook around the globe. The trip was to take three years. Ten years later, Suzanne finally found a way to get off the boat. Her parents sailed on.

Oxford was intrigued by this girl who'd managed to educate herself on a boat. She was invited to an interview at Somerville College PICTURED: Danny Cipriani puts on a cosy display with Strictly's JowitaPrzystal as they hug at their first training session - days after announcing his split from wife Victoria The family set off from Plymouth in 1976, but did not return, as promised by her father Gordon Cook (no relation to Captain Cook), in three years. They spent more than a decade roaming the world, most of it in the South Pacific, covering 47,000 nautical miles, always moving on, always flat broke; a deeply dysfunctional unit of four.We set off again. After a brief classroom experience in Queensland, Australia, some months later, I registered with a correspondence school, but finding the space and time I needed to study on board Wavewalker became a huge battle. My parents had by then started bringing paying crew on to the boat – advertising our voyages as “whale and dolphin sighting expeditions”. This turned our boat into a floating hotel in which I was expected to cook and clean for several hours a day. In addition, after I reached puberty, my relationship with my mother had deteriorated and she often didn’t talk to me for weeks on end, instead only referring to me in the third person, as if I was not there. I was trapped on Wavewalker against my will, with parents who didn’t seem to care how unhappy I was Shia LaBeouf's daughter Isabel, one, flashes a sweet smile as he pushes her in a stroller through Pasadena Then he extended that journey from three years to ten. By the time we got to Hawaii I realised this was not all about following Captain Cook's noble mission. I'd bought into a fantasy and my father was holding me hostage. Beyoncé SKIPS her own red carpet at the Renaissance film world premiere but is spotted inside with daughter Blue Ivy - as pals and family pose for snaps From South America, we sailed on to apartheid South Africa. We then set off across the notorious southern Indian Ocean towards Australia, this time with two inexperienced crew members on board, as my father had by then decided that he preferred to teach people how to sail himself. My father was a hero to me and, it seemed, to everyone else; and my mother was his glamorous, if somewhat unwilling, and unmaternal, accomplice.

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