This was a good read but the preconceptions I took into the book, having seen the film, stopped me getting into it at the beginning. The book is a great, fact-based retelling of the events of October 1991, the Hallowe’en Gale. The film is an excuse for Geaorge and the boys to try and look brave in the cgi infested sea.

The books focus is the storm, the perfect storm, and all the people who found themselves at sea during it. It gravitates around the crew of the Andrea Gale but contains far more. It tells you all about the weather, how to fish and what your chances of survival are in the water. It is genuinely scary because it tells you the facts.

So a far better book than a film, however if you really need to see Geaorge Clooney I suppose the film will do.