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Today is my stop on the Random Things blog tour for The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor.
I am a big fan of WWII fiction and couldn’t wait to read this book.
In 1940 Alice King has been chosen as an escort taking a group of young evacuee children to Canada for the duration of the war.
Two of her charges are young Georgie and Arthur Nichols, whose mother enrolled them in the programme in a desperate attempt to get them away from the blitz in London.
Despite the unknown time they will be away the children are excited and Alice also feels like she has found her calling and is doing her but for the war.
However, disaster strikes in the Atlantic and the ship is hit by a torpedo. Many perish, but one lifeboat struggles on in the endless ocean hoping to be found.
Alice and Lily become intertwined with each other - both the hope of getting through this ordeal.
This is a powerful and heartbreaking read that is made all the more moving by the fact that it is based on true events.
I couldn’t put this book down and then found myself looking up details of the tragic events that inspired this book. It is a remarkable story that shows the true power of hope and courage that people showed.
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Thank you to Random Things Tours for including me. You can follow the other stops on the tour below:
About the Author
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning, New York Times, USA Today, and Irish Times bestselling author of historical fiction, including her debut The Girl Who Came Home, for which she received the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter was shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Gold Crown award, and The Bird in the Bamboo Cage was shortlisted for the 2020 Irish Book Awards. She is published in twenty languages and twenty-seven countries. Hazel lives in Kildare with her family.
