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...
“I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.”"The Lifeboat" by Charlotte Rogan is a book about basic human nature, and the things we are willing to sacrif...
It's 1914, the Empress Alexandria has sunk, and Grace is on trial for her part in the events that took place on an overcrowded lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. The story of what happened unfolds through a journal of Grace's account that she is to provide her defense attorney with and, as suc...
To set the stage; it is 1914 and 39 people, including our narrator Grace, are adrift in the Atlantic, in a life boat that was not designed to hold so many. Their provisions are scant and the possibility of imminent rescue is at best uncertain; but for the reader this story actually begins some time...
(3.5 stars)I’ve been wanting to read this book for quite some time, but when I borrowed a copy from the library, Mr. Pingwing read it first! When he was finished, I was so eager to read this that I got through the book in a single day (it’s not a big book). It was fun to talk about a book we’d both ...
The Lifeboat begins with a prologue. Grace is on trial and when she leaves the courthouse at lunch with the lawyers, it is raining. The reader is introduced to a flashback of Day 10 in the lifeboat when it rained and this is our first intimation of the trauma endured by herself and fellow lifeboat...
It is 1914, and Grace is adrift on a vast ocean after the ship, the Empress Alexandra, sank following an explosion. Her diary and thoughts tell the story of the suffering, survival and loss of all those on the lifeboat she occupied for three weeks, until rescued. A new bride, she finds herself with ...
I liked the premise behind this book and I thought it would lead to tension crackling off the pages but therein lies the problem with this novel.The story takes the unreliable narrator route and is told only through a 22-year old woman named Grace. I’m not a fan of the lone perspective approach, but...
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