Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea is a children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2006. Inspired by the real history of English orphans sent to Australia after the Second World War, it follows Arthur Hobhouse, who is separated from his sister and shipped to Australia, losing his family, his country, and everything familiar. The novel explores his endurance of mistreatment, neglect, and forced labour in the Australian outback, highlighting themes of displacement, institutional abuse, and survival. Its title comes from a line in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.