{"product_id":"the-last-lifeboat-paperback","title":"The Last Lifeboat - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHazel Gaynor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e1940, Kent\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e1940, London\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the \u003ci\u003eS. S. Carlisle\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel Gaynor\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e and internationally bestselling author known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the 20th century. A debut author recipient of the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award, her work has since been shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Gold Crown Award, the 2020 RNA Awards, and the Irish Book Awards in 2017, 2020 and 2023. \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Young \u0026amp; Brave\u003c\/i\u003e was a national bestseller in the USA and her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Lifeboat\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eTimes of London \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel of the month and a 2024 Audie winner for Best Fiction Narrator. Hazel's next novel, \u003ci\u003e Before Dorothy\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in June 2025. Her co-written historical novels with Heather Webb have all been published to critical acclaim. Their latest collaboration, \u003ci\u003eChristmas with the Queen\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in November 2024. Her work has been translated into twenty languages and published in twenty-seven territories to date. She lives in Ireland with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53464380440883,"sku":"9780593440315","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/DcbHwoYibJ9780593440315.webp?v=1781503038","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-lifeboat-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}