Inspired by the sinking of the SS Benares, The Last Lifeboat is a harrowing and compelling story of survival, endurance, and hope.

The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Fiction, WWII, England, Atlantic Ocean, Survival

Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. This week I’m featuring a story of survival based on historical events, The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor.

I’m linking up with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #ThrowbackThursday.

My Summary:

Inspired by the sinking of the SS Benares, The Last Lifeboat is a harrowing and compelling story of survival, endurance, and hope.

Determined to do her part in the war effort, Alice, a school teacher, decides to volunteer as a chaperone in the evacuation of children from England. Lily is one of the mothers who decides to evacuate her children aboard the SS Carlisle (the SS Benares renamed). The chaperones and 100 children are aboard the ship when it is torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat. The Last Lifeboat is the imagined story of survival and hope under the most dire conditions.

“Buoyed by the bright morning, she gathers up the tattered fragments of hope the storm had torn from her in the night, and stitches them together into a patchwork of determination and belief; a blanket of courage big enough to cover them all.”

Continue here for my full review of The Last Lifeboat…

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QOTD:

Have you read other books by Hazel Gaynor?

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