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©2024
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246 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
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"First published in hardcover in Great Britain as Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2024"--Title page verso
"The ... true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: ... [a] tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn share a horror of wasting their lives. What if they quit their jobs, bought a boat, and sailed away? [In June 1972], they set off and enjoy an idyllic ocean journey, until deep in the Pacific, a whale knocks a hole in their boat and it sinks beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone for weeks, then months, in a tiny rubber raft, Maurice and Maralyn must find ways to stay alive, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests"--Page 4 of cover