Charlotte Rogan
Charlotte Rogan graduated from Princeton University in 1975. She worked at various jobs, mostly in the fields of architecture and engineering, before teaching herself to write and staying home to bring up triplets. Her childhood experiences among a family of sailors and the discovery of an old...
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Charlotte Rogan graduated from Princeton University in 1975. She worked at various jobs, mostly in the fields of architecture and engineering, before teaching herself to write and staying home to bring up triplets. Her childhood experiences among a family of sailors and the discovery of an old criminal law text provided inspiration for The Lifeboat, her first novel. After many years in Dallas and a year in Johannesburg, she and her husband now live in Connecticut. The Lifeboat is being translated into 25 languages.
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A few years ago I was enticed by Charlotte Rogan's debut novel, The Lifeboat. A pretty cover and an intriguing premise drew me in; bad reviews and a strange similarity to a John Steinbeck story pushed me away. Ultimately, it was the Steinbeck connection that kept me at bay. Wasn't Steinbeck's script...
Wow this one is hard to review. There are 2 separate storylines here--that of Maggie and the rest of the folks in Red Bud, where a munitions plant keeps the war effort stocked and a prison of inmates is used for some sort of labor. And then there are Penn Sinclair, Danny, Pig Eye, Le Roy, and Joe Ke...
Another book that has been stuck on my list because of a different challenge. I realized a while ago that I didn't think I would like it but I still needed to and that may have affected my reading. The book follows Grace Winter who was on the ship Empress Alexandria when it shipwrecked in 1914. Sh...
On the eve of the First World War newly-wed Grace Winter is cast adrift in a lifeboat with thirty nine others when the transatlantic liner on which she is a passenger founders and sinks. This is the story of how and why she survives while many of her fellow passengers perish. It's told in Grace's wo...
I'm not a big fan of boats: I've only been on one cruise (not counting annual booze cruises in Aruba). I have, however, read two unforgettable yarns set in lifeboats in the past few months. The first one was Unbroken, which I read and liked earlier this year, and now this one. It is a remarkable ach...
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