The girl who came home : a novel of the Titanic

The girl who came home A novel of the Titanic

Hazel Gaynor

Sound recording - 2014

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 giv...es Grace new direction, and leads both her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.

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Subjects
Titanic (Steamship) > Fiction.
Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean > Fiction.
Social classes > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Genres
Historical fiction
Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio p2014.
[Ashland, OR] : p2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Hazel Gaynor (author)
Other Authors
Connor Kelly-Eiding (narrator), Alana Kerr
Edition
Unabridged
Item Description
Title from container.
Physical Description
8 audio discs (approximately 9 hours, 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9781483003016
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Maggie didn't discuss Titanic with anyone. At 17, she was leaving the man she loved as one of a group of Irish immigrants setting out for America. But 70 years later, as her great-granddaughter, Grace, is mourning her father's death, Maggie decides it's finally time to share her story. Inspired by the true tale of an Irish community that suffered the largest proportional loss in the sinking, the novel hits on the standard elements of the Titanic story the ship's magnificence, the stark differences between first and third classes, the many elements that contributed to its downfall. What makes Gaynor's novel fresh is the way she sets the tragedy in the context of her characters' lives. Gaynor is a gentle storyteller who doesn't challenge the reader, writing prettily but at times predictably. At the same time, even the most avid Titanic buff is sure to find something new in this well-researched, finely detailed story. Just as Maggie's retelling makes the disaster real for her great-granddaughter, Gaynor brings immediacy to the oft-told story by shrinking it to a human scale.--Thoreson, Bridget Copyright 2014 Booklist

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