Wild Guesses and Dreams

About Wild Guesses and Dreams

Before helicopter parents hovered overhead, free-range teens explored vivid reality in a magical time between art-rock and hard punk.

Join the adventures of Zehranadilla, a colorful cabin cruiser built by two enterprising adolescents intent on finding how far a local canal went. Undeterred by their youthful ignorance, they shared this improbable achievement with a larger circle of schoolmates, exploring the waterways threading timelessly through the countryside and cities of England.

Along the way, they learned more than they ever imagined about themselves, friendship, and their world.

Full of emotional connections, humor, sadness, mishaps, and wonder, the story of Zehranadilla is a captivating series of floating road trips on a coming-of-age voyage. With a warm and occasionally subversive welcome, the author invites you to step aboard and see the world with fresh eyes, filled with a zany exuberance where anything seemed possible—and almost everything happened.