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Author:

Gaynor, Hazel, author.

Title:

The last lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Berkley,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

370 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Atlantic Ocean--Fiction.
Shipwrecks--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--England--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Canada--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

Includes readers guide.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593440315
9780593440315

LCCN:

2022048106

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