Helen Plum Library Book Club

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a dream of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away? In June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat, and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge, and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests.

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