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This was a slim piece of nonfiction that the speaker felt was the opposite of the big fiction books discussed, and they described it as sweet and lovely. It told the story of newlyweds from 1970s England who sailed to New Zealand, had their boat capsized by a whale, and survived for months on a raft.
I think I said to you, like, it's not often we run across a book which is sweet. And there is a sweetness to this book.
— Episode: Sunday Special: Gifting Books for the Ho...
Episode: Sunday Special: Gifting Books for the Holidays
This was a slim piece of nonfiction that the speaker felt was the opposite of the big fiction books discussed, and they described it as sweet and lovely. It told the story of newlyweds from 1970s England who sailed to New Zealand, had their boat capsized by a whale, and survived for months on a raft.
I think I said to you, like, it's not often we run across a book which is sweet. And there is a sweetness to this book.
And so this becomes then both a story of survival, the day-to-day quotidian horror of survival. And that much more than that, it becomes, in this author's hands, a portrait of marriage.
