TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaynor,Hazel
TI  - The last lifeboat
SN  - 9780593440315
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Berkley
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Evacuation of civilians
KW  - Women
KW  - Children
KW  - Canada
KW  - Atlantic Ocean
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - Includes discussions questions
N2  - "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"--
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