Sadie Stein

And I think one thing you feel throughout this book is how abandoned he is by the adults in his life.

By no means should you go into this thinking it's a romp.

I would say, unless that's a particular trigger for you, I think it's handled sensitively enough and interestingly enough that

that I would recommend it.

Oh, yeah.

It is.

And I think I said to you, like, it's not often we run across a book which is sweet.

And there is a sweetness to this book.

Now, that's not all it is by any means.

But it's lovely.

So what this is, is a story of two newlyweds, a young, pretty young couple.

She younger than he, who...

This is England in the 1970s.

Yes.

And this couple, Morris and Marilyn, decided to give it all up and sail to New Zealand.

And they did it for about nine months.

It was going okay.

When a sperm whale breached, capsized the boat, and they were thrown onto a makeshift raft for several months.

And so this becomes then both a story of survival, the day-to-day quotidian horror of survival, and

And much more than that, it becomes, in this author's hands, a portrait of marriage.