Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
July 17, 2026
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as posted by the channelToday we want to bring back an episode from our archives.
It’s about a book that has real beach read vibes. There’s a lot of water. It’s a relationship drama. And it’s also a daring story of survival.
“Marriage at SeaA True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" made it onto the Book Review Top 10 Books of 2025 () and the paperback edition just came out a few weeks ago. It tells the unbelievable story of a British couple in the 1970s who try to sail around the world. They’re trying to reach New Zealand and they almost make it. But their boat gets capsized by a whale in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean and they’re forced to survive there for quite a while.
Here is our conversation from last year with the author, Sophie Elmhirst.
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