The last lifeboat
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2023
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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.
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
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Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction
Children
Domestic fiction
England -- Fiction
Evacuation of civilians
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks -- Fiction
War fiction
Women
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
Children
Domestic fiction
England -- Fiction
Evacuation of civilians
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks -- Fiction
War fiction
Women
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
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9780593440315
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9780593684221
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Historical Fiction
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