About the Book:
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 aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over 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?
The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.
About the Author:
Charlotte Rogan graduated from Princeton University in 1975. She worked at various jobs, mostly in the fields of architecture and engineering, before teaching herself to write and staying home to bring up triplets. An old criminal law text and her childhood experiences among a family of sailors provided inspiration for The Lifeboat, her first novel. After many years in Dallas and a year in Johannesburg, she and her husband now live in Westport, Connecticut.
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18 comments:
I would have to say everyone take turns in the water. I don't think I'd be able to make a decision like that.
snowwolf222@yahoo.com
I would have those who were capable take turns in the water. Not an easy decision and one I'm glad I don't have to make right now.
k(dot)cherub2011(at)gmail(dot)com
As mean as this may sound to some, when it comes to the lives and health of many people, you have to do what it best for the greater majority. I would leave the man in the water since you have to worry about the boat sinking (with many other people still in the boat). This is not an easy choice, but taking emotions out of the equation, and looking at the facts logically, that is the best course of action.
kaylajohnson3969 (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Take turns in the water and hope for the best.
I would try to get him on board
ontariohappychick at gmail dot com
I answered the following question:
"You were from the crew of the shipwrecked liner, the Empress Alexandria and you are now the leader of a lifeboat that is already over capacity. There isn't another lifeboat in sight--only big chunks of floating debris from the sunk ship. You see someone adrift and realize it is an elderly gentleman and he has seen you. If he comes aboard, the entire lifeboat might sink w/ all its passengers. What do you do?"
My answer was that you leave him. It is harsh and seems unkind but you are putting the rest of the overcrowded boat in jeopardy by picking up the other man. it is one life against many and I believe you have to go with the many.
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candc320@gmail.com
I couldn't make that decision. I can't sacrific someone else's life to save everyone else. I feel its wrong. Why should he have to die so the others can live? Tore923@aol.com
Who is the authority on whether the lifeboat will sink with one more person on board? I say, get the man on board.
I would at least try to save him. I don't want anyone's death on my conscience. Though, I wouldn't let my attempt to save him comprise the other passengers'.
Very difficult decision but the practical one is to take turns with those who can swim/volunteer to swim taking a chance.
Take turns in the water.
lag110 at mchsi dot com
Yep, I'd have to go for taking turns in the water as well. And the other question about the elderly gentleman is too disturbing to even try answering!
nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com
Everybody would take turns in the water and hope for the best out come.
Thanks you for this great giveaway.
:)Jeanne
I think everyone would have to take a turn in the water. It's simply the right thing to do.
and my email: carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx
It would only be fair to take turns in the water.
ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net
Take turns in the water
Gkuroda at gmail com
I would try to get him on board. jtretin at aol dot com
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