SOPHIE ELMHIRST

Sophie Elmhirst is a prize-winning writer for the Guardian Long Read and other
publications. In 2020, she won the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year;
she has also won a Foreign Press Award and been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Her debut book, Maurice and Maralyn, was published in the UK in 2024, where it
became a Sunday Times bestseller and won both the Nero Non-Fiction Prize and the
Nero Gold Prize for Book of the Year. It was published in the US as A Marriage at
Sea in July 2025 where it became an instant New York Times bestseller.