{"product_id":"9780593440315","title":"The Last Lifeboat","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370586116157,"sku":"9780593440315","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593440315_p0.jpg?v=1771573182","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780593440315","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}