The Crossing is the seventh novel by English novelist Andrew Miller published in 2015 by Sceptre, an imprint by Hodder & Stoughton.

While working on a yacht in a dry dock she falls and is rushed to hospital by air ambulance.

Meanwhile, Tim, a wealthy fellow student and guitarist (with an original Lacôte) sees her fall and visits her at the hospital.

They marry and have a child Zoe, and then buy a Nicholson 32, a 32-foot ocean-going yacht called Lodestar.

Tragedy then strikes and Maud single-handedly sets off across the Atlantic and encounters a violent storm.