02004cam a2200313 i 4500 1262075706 TxAuBib 221018s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022048106 9780593440315 0593440315 (OCoLC)20539 TxAuBib rda Gaynor, Hazel, author. The last lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor. last life boat. First edition. New York : Berkley, 2023. 370 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes readers guide. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring-- 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. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries. 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 or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes a ship carrying 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. World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Children Canada Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Evacuation of civilians England Fiction. Historical fiction.