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Title Statement | The last lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor. |
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Author | Gaynor, Hazel |
Publication | New York: Berkley,2023. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 370 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593440315 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06998931 |
General Notes | Includes readers guide. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring-she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she'd long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher-to help evacuate Britain's children overseas. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily's humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other-one on land, the other at sea-will quickly become one another's very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Evacuation of civilians--Fiction |
Mother and child--Fiction | |
Survival at sea--Fiction | |
Women teachers--Fiction | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Evacuation of civilians | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--England | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Novels |