{"product_id":"the-last-lifeboat","title":"The Last Lifeboat","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1940, Kent: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1940, 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salti Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44646002163746,"sku":"9780008518677","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/2871\/0178\/files\/9780008518677.jpg?v=1765950766","url":"https:\/\/www.saltireadscaloundra.com\/products\/the-last-lifeboat","provider":"Salti Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}