Sophie Elmhirst

Sophie Elmhirst is a journalist and author whose work is known for combining close psychological portraiture with vivid narrative reporting. In A Marriage at Sea, she draws on diaries, logbooks, and reconstructed memories to tell a survival story that is also a marriage story—focusing less on spectacle and more on the human dynamics that determine who lives, who collapses, and how two people stay connected under extreme pressure. Her approach blends careful detail with emotional clarity, treating the Baileys’ ordeal as both extraordinary history and a lens on ordinary intimacy.