From Goodreads... 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, and sailed away?
Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But 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. Although they could run away from the world, they can’t run away from themselves.
Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
This book is not your "traditional memoir", it's actually what is called narrative nonfiction... written like a story using all true facts of the story, but not written by the actual couple who experienced it. Sophie Elmhirst won a NERO award for this book and the book has gotten great press. There was an "original book" that was published by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, the couple who the book is about, called 117 Days Adrift, written in 1988 and under 200 pages. A Marriage at Sea expands the story to 256 pages and written by Sophie Elmhirst who is an award winning journalist.
Which book to read to learn what happened to Maurice and Bailey? Being published in 2025, A Marriage at Sea is a bit more accessible, written and the only choice for an ebook. The original book by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey got great reviews all around and can still be found. I've been doing a lot of eBooks lately, so I'm putting A Marriage at Sea on my TBR list!
Published in 2025 by Riverhead Books and at your favorite bookstore!
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