![]() The boat is floating low in the water, which worries many of the passengers. Hardie, an experienced sailor, has taken leadership of the group. ![]() ![]() They have escaped on Lifeboat 14 following an explosion on the ship, whose fiery remains she can still see in the distance. In the first chapter, Grace is at sea with her fellow survivors. They tell her to write a diary of the twenty-one days she spent on the boat. She has a team of three lawyers, hired by her mother-in-law, who are debating how to present her to the jury. In the prologue, Grace is on trial after having been rescued from the shipwreck, along with two other women, Ursula Grant and Hannah. ![]() ![]() According to Rogan, this is based on real-life reports of shipwreck victims who were made to pay for their actions while they were lost at sea. The book shifts backward and forward between the disturbing events on the lifeboat and Grace’s trial for murder once she arrives on land. The Lifeboat (2012), novelist Charlotte Rogan’s first book, tells the story of Grace Winters, a young woman who is stranded on a lifeboat with thirty-eight other passengers, and of the moral dilemmas that arise as they fight for survival. ![]()
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