A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

It was almost impossible for Maurice to think of such a time, as if this were how they’d always lived and how they always would. Colin found Maurice to be strange about his woodwork, the way he’d do a job over and over until he was sure it was perfect. The builder actually cried. “The day,” wrote Maurice, as if the unfolding calamity confirmed some deeper truth, “turned out to be a fiasco after all.” The slipway was repaired, the boat fixed. On the night of the twenty-sixth, the sky finally cleared.