![]() The first chapter finds Grace, along with two other survivors, in jail awaiting trial for murder at sea. Her expedient principle is “God helps those who help themselves!” It’s quickly obvious that she’s a survivor, in every sense. ![]() ![]() A newlywed, Grace’s wealthy husband, Henry, never made it onto the lifeboat in the confusion following the mysterious explosion that caused the disaster. It’s set in 1914 - two years after the Titanic’s demise - and told in diary form from the perspective of an enigmatic young American named Grace Winter. ![]() Her story follows a lifeboat with 39 survivors from a fictional ocean liner, the Empress Alexandra, that sinks en route from London to New York. It’s not, thank goodness, about the Titanic we already have an overdose of books, articles and TV specials about that. Surely, that’s in part because we can’t help contemplating the queasy-making moral choices - women and children first! - that in many cases determined who sank or survived.Ĭharlotte Rogan manages to distill this drama about what’s right and wrong when the answer means life or death into a gripping, confident first novel. ![]() On the 100th anniversary of the wreck of the Titanic, our fascination with the ill-fated ship appears bottomless. ![]()
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