Book review: 'A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck'

Book review: 'A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck'

Sophie Elmhirst's fascinating first book is "so much more than a shipwreck tale," said Laurie Hertzel in The Boston Globe. In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were sailing toward the Galápagos Islands when a sperm whale rammed their yacht and left them stranded at sea for the next 118 days on a tiny inflatable raft and 9-foot dinghy. Elmhirst has turned the British couple's tale of survival into a portrait of a marriage. "What else is a marriage…