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Two in a Boat - A Marital Rite of Passage (Paperback)
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Two in a Boat - A Marital Rite of Passage (Paperback)
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In her forties Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her
landlubber life - a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the
BBC - for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a
former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties. "We
bought our first sailing boat by accident... She was a
twenty-three-foot Intro class racer called Nitro, had a yellow hull
and was totally unsuitable for beginners, so we bought her and
started to learn how to sail in the Bristol Channel. Not long
afterwards we were talking about renting out the house and sailing
around the world." After buying a yacht - Jameeleh - and teaching
themselves to sail it (a process not without its fair share of
disasters, from psychotic seas off St. Govan's Head to broken ribs
off Ballycotton), Gwyneth and Leighton set out to cross the
Atlantic. Unfortunately Gwyneth's incessant seasickness and
Leighton's daily deterioration into a moody Captain Bastard were
not the only catastrophes with which they had to contend. This
strange, stirring and often hilarious account of their voyage is as
much a beginner's guide to sailing as it is a portrait of a
marriage under the pressure of depression, both medical and
meteorological. Gwyneth Lewis's training as a poet and film-maker
lends her prose a wonderfully visual quality, and her contagious
optimism in the face of inconceivable adversity - not much more
could possibly have gone wrong - makes this unique book both
touchingly witty and incredibly wise.
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