The Lifeboat Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from Jenners26

I was really pumped up to read this book after reading several gushing and amazing reviews of it in magazines, and it wasn't quite what I was expecting. This is NOT really a book about surviving at sea in a lifeboat (although that is the exact situation that our narrator, 22-year-old newlywed Gra...

from nbmars

As the story begins, we find out that Grace Winter, 22, is on trial for murder along with two other women who were among the survivors of a shipwreck and three-week ordeal aboard a lifeboat. Grace's attorneys have asked her to write up her recollections of the experience, which comprise most of t...

from chasidar

I debated between three and four stars. I really enjoyed this book, the ending less so. I thought it fizzled out a bit at the end. When an ocean liner sinks in 1914, some of the women and men find themselves in a lifeboat which is over capacity. The choices they make in order to survive and the c...

from richardderus

Rating: 3.875* of five The Book Report: The book description says: "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 her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting as...

from Liz1564

Grace Winter is a survivor. When the ship she and her new husband were on sank, she survived in an overcrowded lifeboat for weeks before rescue. The novel opens with Grace on trial for murder because of incidents which occurred on the lifeboat. The fascinating twist to this familiar plot is Grace...