Today, 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 Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" made it onto the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/books/review/best-books-2025.html?eafs_enabled=false" rel="noopener noreferrer">Book Review Top 10 Books of 2025</a> 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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