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Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea is a book by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2006 by HarperCollins. It was inspired by the history of English orphans transported to Australia after World War II. The book's title is taken from a line in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

The novel has two parts. The first follows Arthur Hobhouse's story, and the second follows the story of his daughter Allie.

Arthur Hobhouse tells the story of his life. His earliest memory was that he was an orphan from Bermondsey, in London, and that, at the age of six, in 1947 he was transported to Australia to find a new home. He is parted from his sister, Kitty Hobhouse, who he is not sure exists or not. He remembers distinctly the time of their parting, at the docks in Liverpool, when she gave him a key, which he calls his lucky key and wears from that day on. He boards the ship and leaves for the country that is to be his home for the rest of his life.

The boat trip is terrible. In his bunk there are some other boys, who are older than he is, all about eight years old, and from the north. They bully him because he is younger than them, he's a Cockney, he sings London Bridge is Falling Down to get himself to...