{"product_id":"the-last-lifeboat-9780593440315","title":"The Last Lifeboat","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e1940, Kent\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e1940, London\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the \u003ci\u003eS. S. Carlisle\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel Gaynor\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning\u003ci\u003e, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and international bestselling author. Her most recent historical novel, set in China during WWII--published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand as \u003ci\u003eThe Bird in the Bamboo Cage\u003c\/i\u003e and in the USA and Canada as \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Young \u0026amp; Brave--\u003c\/i\u003ewas an \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, a national bestseller in the USA, and was short-listed for the 2020 Irish Book Awards.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Berkley Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606237876498,"sku":"9780593440315","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddb2aa02-de02-4175-bab8-41de1eec82b3.jpg?v=1732290888","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-lifeboat-9780593440315","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}