{"product_id":"sea-wife","title":"Amity Gaige: Sea Wife [2020] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSchroder,\u003c\/i\u003e a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJuliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them - a boat that Michael has christened the \u003ci\u003eJuliet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe initial result is transformative: their marriage is given a gust of energy, and even the children are affected by the beauty and wonderful vertigo of travel. The sea challenges them all - and most of all, Juliet, who suffers from postpartum depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSea Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet's first-person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the dire, life-changing events that unfolded at sea; and Michael's captain's log - that provides a riveting, slow-motion account of those same inexorable events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExuberant, harrowing, witty, and exquisitely written, \u003ci\u003eSea Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gaige, Amity","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47955956695379,"sku":"XG80349726502","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gaige-amity-sea-wife-xg80349726502-55334161973587.jpg?v=1728298220","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/sea-wife","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}