When Elmhirst comes close to breaking the fourth wall, that contribute to the pleasure of this exciting book. You know as a reader that you are in very capable hands ... A fascinating narrative ... She doles out the adventures, such as they were, and tells them vividly ... So much more than a shipwreck tale. It’s a story of love and strength, a portrait of a marriage that — for all its oddities — is a true partnership.
Elegant and propulsive ... Elmhirst has created something remarkable of her own: a piece of lyrical narrative nonfiction ... In Elmhirst’s delicate, humane depiction of the couple, her choice of narrative framing, her pacing and her compassion, she renders A Marriage at Sea an act of beauty in its own right.
An enthralling account of a partnership in extremis ... Elmhirst sets her reader down inside a world that is both tiny and vast, at once ruthlessly monotonous and violently unpredictable ... Visceral.
