The Last Lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593440315
- ISBN: 0593440315
- Physical Description: 370 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2023.
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Subject: | Teachers > Fiction. Evacuations > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > England > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
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Barton County - Liberal | FIC GAY (Text) | 31107211613083 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | GAY (Text) | 33042004914860 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | F GAYNOR Hazel (Text) | 30065100194965 | Fiction | Available | - |
MLC - Kirkwood Public Library | GAYNO (Text) | 31300010131271 | Fiction | Available | - |
MLC - Richmond Heights Memorial Library | F GAYNOR (Text) | 38001002424129 | Fiction | Available | - |
MLC - University City Public Library | F GAYNOR (Text) | 30301006224873 | Fiction | Available | - |
MLC - Webster Groves Public Library | F GAYNOR, H (Text) | 10000003266457 | Fiction | Available | - |
Ray County Library | F GAY (Text) | 2910032966 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Riverside Regional-Altenburg | F GAY (Text) | 30000005612431 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ste. Genevieve County Library | FIC Gaynor (Text) | 33358000340938 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |