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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 highlighted the book as an extremeadventure true story about a couple's 1970s sailing mishap that turned into a survival saga on a raft.

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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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Maureen Corrigan highlighted the book as an extremeadventure true story about a couple's 1970s sailing mishap that turned into a survival saga on a raft.

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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... A year later, in the middle of the Pacific, a whale breached out of the briny deep and knocked a hole in the Oralin. It sank within minutes. Marilyn, who couldn't swim, and Morris spent four months adrift on a rubber raft.

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