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The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic
Scritto da Hazel Gaynor
Narrato da Connor Kelly-Eiding e Alana Kerr
Azioni libro
Inizia ad ascoltare- Editore:
- HarperAudio
- Pubblicato:
- Apr 1, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780062344533
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
Descrizione
A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .
Ireland, 1912 . . .
Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that fateful night again.
Chicago, 1982 . . .
Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler struggles to decide what comes next. When her great-grandmother Maggie shares the painful secret about Titanic that she's harbored for almost a lifetime, the revelation gives Grace new direction-and leads both her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.
Inspired by true events, The Girl Who Came Home poignantly blends fact and fiction to explore the Titanic tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.
Informazioni sul libro
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic
Scritto da Hazel Gaynor
Narrato da Connor Kelly-Eiding e Alana Kerr
Descrizione
A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .
Ireland, 1912 . . .
Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that fateful night again.
Chicago, 1982 . . .
Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler struggles to decide what comes next. When her great-grandmother Maggie shares the painful secret about Titanic that she's harbored for almost a lifetime, the revelation gives Grace new direction-and leads both her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.
Inspired by true events, The Girl Who Came Home poignantly blends fact and fiction to explore the Titanic tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.
- Editore:
- HarperAudio
- Pubblicato:
- Apr 1, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780062344533
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
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However, upon finishing, I was left feeling underwhelmed by Maggie's story, as if I'd been expecting more behind her survival. That could, of course, have been sparked by the comparisons I drew with the Titanic movie, where the ship sinking was only part of the drama. And while Ms. Gaynor writes very well, I do feel it's easier for a writer to create a sense of suspense when the reader knows in advance the ship is going to sink and is familiar with the appalling survival rate of steerage passengers. The book club questions make particular mention of survivor guilt, but I didn't feel this issue was fully explored - there is no debate in the lifeboat about returning to seek further survivors, and in later years all we're told is that Maggie never talked about the experience.
Overall, I suspect a novel set on the Titanic is a savvy choice for an author and highly marketable for the publisher. For me, it was an engaging read but not truly memorable.
While I loved the historical aspect and Maggie, I wasn't a huge fan of Grace. There were multiple times I wanted to close the book during her parts, but the journal entries always pulled me back in. I know Grace was an important role in the story, but I just lacked any connection to her. Where with Maggie I felt the romance and emotion pouring off the pages... Grace's character wasn't as well developed. It wasn't until the end that I truly felt the importance of her. Speaking of an ending.... It was AMAZING! I wanted it to be true, but until it was written in ink I wasn't sure what would happen. It really answered all the questions I had.
Overall, I really enjoyed this story. The history sucked me in with it's rawness and the romance consumed my heart. I was pulling for a happily ever after and I feel satisfied with the way everything came together. I definitely recommend this book to all readers that have a love for history.
The story of the Titanic is very important and I loved how a fiction tale captured the essence of reality.
With so many stories written about the Titanic I was quite surprised at the freshness of this telling. Based (very loosely) on the lives (and deaths) of fourteen Irish immigrants traveling on the Titanic. Maggie’s story is told through reminiscences, a journal she kept and a long-lost bundle of letters. Although the ending contains a little twist I must admit I did see it coming. All in all this was a well told story set against the backdrop of the ocean disaster. Ms. Gaynor did a marvelous job when it came to describing the final hours of the sinking. Without being overly graphic, she had me holding my breath while I was reading, feeling every emotion Maggie experienced. That certainly bumped the rating up one star for me.
Not belonging to a book group I don’t always read the “Reading Group Discussion Questions” sometimes provided at the end of books, but in this case I did and the last two questions posed struck me as being very insightful.
Question 15 asked “There have been many other shipping tragedies since Titanic. Cunard’s passenger liner RMS Lusitania (traveling from New York to Liverpool) sank off the coast of Ireland in 1915 when the liner was truck by a torpedo fired from a German submarine. There were 1,198 civilian fatalities in the event. In the light of many tragedies with great loss of life since 1912, why do you think people continue to be so fascinated by Titanic a hundred years later?
Question 16 asked “Australian businessman Clive Palmer is starting construction on a replica of Titanic – Titanic II – which is scheduled to re-create Titanic’s maiden voyage in 2016. There have been very mixed reactions to this project among relatives and descendants of Titanic’s passengers and Titanic enthusiasts. What are your thoughts on it?
That gave me something to think about!