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The book was highlighted as a truestory adventure about a 1970s couple who sold their home to sail around the world, facing a shipwreck and survival on a raft.
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst is a true story that's part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on the mystery of a loving partnership. Morris and Marilyn Bailey were a lowermiddleclass Engli...
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Episode: Best Of: Stacey Abrams / Raphael Saadiq
The book was highlighted as a truestory adventure about a 1970s couple who sold their home to sail around the world, facing a shipwreck and survival on a raft.
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst is a true story that's part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on the mystery of a loving partnership. Morris and Marilyn Bailey were a lowermiddleclass English couple bored with their lives in the early 1970s. They sold their suburban bungalow, bought a boat, and sailed round the world, only to have their sloop sink and survive months adrift on a rubber raft.