The Lifeboat

Description

Product ID:	9781844087549
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Lifeboat
Authors:	Author: Charlotte Rogan
Page Count:	352
Subjects:	Historical fiction, Historical fiction
Description:	Select Guide Rating A daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Winter is on trial; in flashback, we learn why . . . I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner suffers a mysterious explosion en route to New York City, Henry Winter manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for his new wife Grace. But the survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity and could sink at any moment. For any to live, some must die. Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers on the lifeboat plot, scheme, gossip and console one another while sitting inches apart. Their deepest beliefs are tested to the limit as they begin to discover what they will do in order to survive.
Imprint Name:	Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Name:	Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2013-01-03

Weight	240 g
Dimensions	116 × 191 × 24 mm