How many pages is A Marriage at Sea?

256 pages, which is about 77,000 words and 5 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.

How long is the A Marriage at Sea audiobook?

About 8½ hrs, estimated from the 77,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

A Marriage at SeaSophie Elmhirst

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A Marriage at Sea

Name: A Marriage at Sea
Author: Sophie Elmhirst

Sophie Elmhirst

5 hrsto read

6.4worth it

At your speed≈ 5 hrs

Pages256

Audiobook≈ 8½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

256 pages works out to roughly 77,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 5 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.84 out of 5, from 65 ratings.

Worth-it score 6.4/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 6.3 (Hardcover's 3.84★ from 65 ratings) + length 0.1 = 6.4. How the score works →

How long does it take to read A Marriage at Sea?

A Marriage at Sea is 256 pages, or roughly 77,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for A Marriage at Sea at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	7½ hrs
Average	250	5 hrs
Fast	400	3 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 8½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read A Marriage at Sea?: About 5 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. A Marriage at Sea runs 256 pages, roughly 77,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 7½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
How many pages is A Marriage at Sea?: 256 pages, which is about 77,000 words and 5 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
Is A Marriage at Sea worth reading?: We score it 6.4 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.84 out of 5 from 65 ratings, which counts for 6.3; at about 5 hrs at an average pace it earns +0.1 for being short.
How long is the A Marriage at Sea audiobook?: About 8½ hrs, estimated from the 77,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He’s a loner, awkward and obsessive; she’s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream – as we all dream – of running away from it all.…

What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away? Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can’t run away from themselves. Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.