![]() ![]() ![]() She and her rich banker husband Henry are onboard the luxury liner Empress Alexandra as it makes its way to New York in 1914 when it sinks after a mysterious explosion. ![]() It’s a narrative told through the eyes of one person in the boat, the just married twenty-two-year-old Grace Winter. The Lifeboat is an extraordinarily intense narrative that unflinchingly examines the individual’s will to survive. Who gets to live in those circumstances? Who deserves to die? And who has the right to make those decisions? Should the men in the boat sacrifice themselves for the female survivors? Those questions lie at the heart of this novel. For some of them to survive, some of them must die. But as the 39 castaways see hopes of an early rescue fade, their struggle for survival takes on a far more menacing aspect. In Charlotte Rogan’s debut novel, a disparate group of passengers from a luxury ocean liner are squashed in a small lifeboat adrift in a mid Atlantic.Īs you’d expect, a large part of The Lifeboat features tales of endurance against the elements and hostilities between the survivors. ![]()
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