Sophie Elmhirst: For Better or Worse
Sophie Elmhirst
Edinburgh Futures Institute
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What is a marriage, if not being stuck on a raft with another, trying to survive? That's the question, both literally and figuratively, at the heart of Sophie Elmhirst's remarkable Maurice and Maralyn. The astonishing true story of a couple shipwrecked by a whale in the remote Pacific, it's both gripping, elegiac, and told as evocatively as any novel. Sam Baker joins its Orwell Prize-shortlisted author to uncover the deeper questions underpinning this tender portrait.