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Charlotte rogans terrific debut novel opens with a bang, when the ship carrying newlyweds. The below text from the lifeboat is also available for download as a pdf here. The titanic went down historically on april 12th, 1912. I recognized a deck chair and a straw hat and what looked like a childs doll floating together, bleak reminders of the pretty weather we had experienced only that morning and of the holiday mood that had pervaded the ship. Rogan interweaves the trial with a harrowing daybyday story of graces time aboard the lifeboat, and circles around societys ideas about what it means to be human, what responsibilities we. Beneath that, the lifeboat is a study of knowledge and experience, memory and truthtelling. Charlotte rogan begins her novel with a sentence that is sure to keep us reading.
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