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Now is the Hour

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Life is a voyage and for Thalia McGrath, the voyage is literal. In 1965, she sails on the ocean liner Oriana from Australia to America engaged to marry journalist Douglas Barton, the man she met when he was working temporarily in Australia.

The long ocean crossing of Polynesia and the glamor and fun of a sea voyage-a rite of passage for young Australians-take a serious turn when Thalia, in a misguided attempt to be more alluring to her husband-to-be by acquiring some sexual experience, impet...