The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea

by Mary South and Mary South

Book Overview

At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006074703X
• ISBN13: 9780060747039
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ!!!!!

Be sure to have plenty of time when you start reading this book because you won't want to put it down! Ms South writes in such a way that you can picture what she is writing as if you were standing next to her experiencing what she did. If you've ever had a dream of living a different life you can live that dream vicariously through this book. I would recommend this book to everyone!!!

A real adventurer, go Mary!!! Loved the honest and realist writing style. A book that I would highl

Mary South writes a realistic and honest depiction of her experiences at sea. I would dare say that most of us don't have the tanacity and courage to do the same. I didn't want to put it down. Even read it aloud to my husband on a road trip. You go girl! Would like to read more of Mary South! JMG Houston Texas

Inspiring Career Change

A great story of an inquisitive mind looking for fulfillment by jumping ship on the present cruise of life to start a Voyangege to renew and continue a successful life by taking a different boat. The amount of courage taken to attempt such a change is no less than a trip through space, but this is down home and shows us the challenge we each have in our own back yard. So well written we can all identify with the exposure of her life and its honesty. The book brings you onboard and makes you want your innermost thoughts to come to life as you travel along with her adventure.

The Cure for Anything is Salt Water

I continue to find that first time novelist are the best and Mary South is no exception. She is an excellent writer with a compelling story to share with us all. I could see myself having a similar adventure and laughed along with her. A good read.

Hilarious, inspiring -- a most satisfying beach read

What a great book. I started it a few nights ago and I can't put it down. I don't know a thing about boating, but I've dreamed of doing something similar to this for years -- just quitting my job and following my dream. She's so honest, she makes it seem possible for anyone to just go out and make it happen. Some parts are so funny that I keep waking up my husband from laughing so hard. I'm going to give this book to all my friends for their birthdays.