The Lifeboat
A Novel
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3.5 • 39 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.
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 her 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 is over 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.
Customer Reviews
The Lifeboat
Truly a compelling tale of human nature when faced with extreme adversity. While in the lifeboat neither concept of right or wrong have enough strength for one to prevail over the other. Decisions are made, actions are taken, reality and surreality merge to form an incomprehensible jumble of events which the narrator translates
for the reader. The translation is not defined with judgement or a clear comprehension but merely as questions. Questions that each reader will formulate and most likely speculate upon, conjuring answers that are influenced by one's inate nature and experiences of life....as it was for those in the lifeboat.