In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Susan Cole discusses her new memoir, Holding Fast. It is Susan’s story of leaving everything behind to follow her husband’s lifelong dream of sailing away. Susan has lived on or around sailboats for most of her life. But when she married John in her early twenties and agreed to live with him on a sailboat, she had never sailed before. After living on several different boats, Susan and John eventually embarked on a three-year voyage through the Caribbean with their seven-year-old daughter and their dog, Elmo. In Holding Fast, Susan recounts the joys of offshore sailing, as well as its many trials and tribulations, including the experience of riding out a hurricane. It was an adventure that profoundly changed their lives forever. In this episode, I’ll chat with Susan about her writing journey, her advice for anyone thinking of sailing away, and how the title of her book, Holding Fast, relates to her husband’s favorite sailor’s knot.
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