The Lifeboat
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat,...
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Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize has exceeded capacity. For any to live, some must die.As the castaways battle the elements and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?THE LIFEBOAT is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316185912 (0316185914)
ASIN: 316185914
Publish date: January 8th 2013
Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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...
Seit ich den Klappentext zu "In einem Boot" gelesen hatte, war mir klar, dass ich dieses Buch einfach lesen muss. Ich wurde zwar nicht enttäuscht, aber einen kleinen Kritikpunkt gibt es von mir dennoch...Grace schreibt die Ereignisse auf, die sich in dem Rettungsboot nach der Explosion des Ozeandamp...
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...