The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea

Following the end of a brief romantic relationship, in a bout of self-pity ‘histrionically out of proportion to anything that could have been justified by events’, Kevin Patterson bought a sailboat and made plans to sail her from the northwest of Canada to Tahiti. He had never been at sea before. THE WATER IN BETWEEN is the in turns hilarious and harrowing account of that journey, as Patterson sets off to burn away his sorrows on the open sea. But as he beats his way across the Pacific, and through gripping anecdotes and asides, the reality of masculine adventure begins to pall, and the illusion that men are best tested by loneliness and adversity cracks in the forces of the wind.