Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014
Pages: 384
Rating: Highly Recommend
Synopsis: A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .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 gives Grace new direction—and leads both her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.
Inspired by true events, The Girl Who Came Home poignantly blends fact and fiction to explore the Titanic tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.
Review: I loved A Memory of Violets so much that I couldn't wait to read another Hazel Gaynor novel. It's purely coincidental that I read a book about Titanic over the 104th anniversary of it's sinking. That's a little eerie.
It was clear that The Girl Who Came Home was a debut novel. At times the plot was rushed and things just fell together a little too easily. When Gaynor wrote A Memory of Violets, she was a more seasoned, mature author and it showed. Furthermore, it's always challenging to me to read books about Titanic. We all know how it ends, and the author suck you into the characters' lives and you know most will not survive the night. The older I get the more horrific the tragedy of Titanic seems, but like I said, I am determined to read all of Gaynor's books.
I kept a careful distance between myself and this book, whereas in A Memory of Violets, I climbed inside and stayed there long after I finished the last page.
All of that aside, this is still a fabulous book and one I highly recommend.
Review: I loved A Memory of Violets so much that I couldn't wait to read another Hazel Gaynor novel. It's purely coincidental that I read a book about Titanic over the 104th anniversary of it's sinking. That's a little eerie.
It was clear that The Girl Who Came Home was a debut novel. At times the plot was rushed and things just fell together a little too easily. When Gaynor wrote A Memory of Violets, she was a more seasoned, mature author and it showed. Furthermore, it's always challenging to me to read books about Titanic. We all know how it ends, and the author suck you into the characters' lives and you know most will not survive the night. The older I get the more horrific the tragedy of Titanic seems, but like I said, I am determined to read all of Gaynor's books.
I kept a careful distance between myself and this book, whereas in A Memory of Violets, I climbed inside and stayed there long after I finished the last page.
All of that aside, this is still a fabulous book and one I highly recommend.
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