The Journey to the End of the World (Joel Gustafson Stories Book 4)

Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams. . . ? Continuing Mankells magical account of a boyhood spent in northern Sweden, Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in the north of Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was small. After such a long time, how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion, and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams? In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival of a letter giving news about his long-absent, nearly forgotten, mother, sends Joel and his father on a journey to Stockholm that will change their lives forever. Joel is fifteen and wants to travel the world as a merchant sailor - First, however, he must meet his mother, who ran off and left him and his father many years ago