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The Lifeboat: A Novel Audiobook
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The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.
In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.
As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?
The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.
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"I enjoyed this book very much. It was well written, and very well narrated. The reader was easy to understand, didn't have huge fluctuations in volume, and kept the story interesting. Great book for a book club."
— Becky (5 out of 5 stars)
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“The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential: I read it in one go.”
— Emma Donoghue, author of Room -
“I can’t imagine any reader who looks at the opening pages wanting to put the book down…It’s so refreshing to read a book that is ambitious and yet not tricksy, where the author seems to be in command of her material and really on top of her game. It’s beautifully controlled and totally believable.”
— Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall -
The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential: I read it in one go.
— Emma Donoghue, author of Room -
The Lifeboat is a richly rewarding novel, psychologically acute and morally complex. It can and should be read on many levels, but it is first and foremost a harrowing tale of survival. And what an irresistible tale it is; terrifying, intense, and, like the ocean in which the shipwrecked characters are cast adrift, profound.
— Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Confessions of Edward Day -
What a splendid book. . . . I can't imagine any reader who looks at the opening pages wanting to put the book down. . . . It's so refreshing to read a book that is ambitious and yet not tricksy, where the author seems to be in command of her material and really on top of her game. It's beautifully controlled and totally believable.
— Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Awards
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Selected for the April 2012 Indie Next List
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A New York Times bestseller
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A 2012 BookPage Best Book for Fiction
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A 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for Fiction
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About Charlotte Rogan
Charlotte Rogan studied architecture at Princeton University, graduating in 1975. She worked at various jobs, mostly in the fields of architecture and engineering, before teaching herself to write and staying home to bring up triplets. She is also the author of The Lifeboat, which was nominated for the Guardian’s First Book Award, the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in Westport, Connecticut.
About Rebecca Gibel
Rebecca Gibel is an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress. The narrator of over fifty audiobooks, Rebecca is facile in a wide variety of genres. Rebecca has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, and the Arden Theatre Company. She holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.