Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor.
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..
Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single Lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic.
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When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S.
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.
With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily\'s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. 1940, London 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.
Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher--to help evacuate Britain\'s children overseas.
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. 1940, Kent Alice King is not brave or daring--she\'s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books.
Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor
