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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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Maureen Corrigan presented A Marriage at Sea as a partextreme adventure, part meditation on marriage, recounting the 1972 ordeal of a couple adrift after a whale damaged their sloop.

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My final best book pick is A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst, which is part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on marriage. In 1972, Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the m...

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Maureen Corrigan presented A Marriage at Sea as a partextreme adventure, part meditation on marriage, recounting the 1972 ordeal of a couple adrift after a whale damaged their sloop.

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My final best book pick is A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst, which is part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on marriage. In 1972, Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop.

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