The Lifeboat

The Lifeboat

2012 • 207 pages

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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 Grace 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 has exceeded 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?


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I didn't love this book as I hoped I would. It was enjoyable but not great. I didn't really like the narrator because I felt like she was sort of a double agent in the lifeboat, never really committing to any of the necessary decisions.

June 6, 2012

Wishing I could have been there for the discussion of this one... A fascinating narrator, who I am not sure was entirely reliable, and I'm not sure that it can possibly be certain that her intention was to be unreliable or as honest as she possibly could.

March 24, 2013

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