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A Marriage at Sea A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Sophie Elmhirst

THE RUNAWAY Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He’s a loner, awkward and obsessive; she’s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream – as we all dream – of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, an...

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It was highlighted as a deeply reported nonfiction account of a 1970s British couple who sold everything to sail to New Zealand and ultimately survived on a Pacific life raft. Andrew Limbong introduced it as a book he had been thinking about, noting its dramatic story without explicitly endorsing it.

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This deeply reported nonfiction book detailed the story of a young British couple in the 70s who sold everything to sail to New Zealand, only to end up stranded on a life raft in the Pacific.

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So a book I've been thinking about is called A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst, right? It's about a young British couple in the 70s who decide they want to sell everything off and sail to New Zealand. Things don't go great, and they end up floating on a life raft in the Pacific.

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