Evening Book Club: "A Marriage at Sea" by Sophie Elmhirst

August's selection: "A Marriage at Sea" by Sophie Elmhirst

Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple, 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.