The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
Book Feature - The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
HBL Note: Hazel Gaynor is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author. I’ve featured a number of her books on this blog including When We Were Brave and Young and Meet Me in Monaco which she co-wrote with Heather Webb. But her latest, THE LAST LIFE BOAT, is the first book with her new publisher, Berkley. It is based on a true story about a teacher who helps evacuate her students during WWII. Not familiar with Hazel Gaynor? Well, then you’re in for a treat! If you enjoy books by Lisa Wingate, Kristin Hannah, Martha Hall Kelly, and Kristin Harmel then you’re sure to love Hazel Gaynor, too. Scroll down to read more.
From the publisher:
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.
