Review: fresh take on the disaster
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2011
After spending the past three years working in America, Englishwoman Elizabeth Shallcross decides her future is not with being a governess to the affluent.  She wants more independence, but has one last commitment to complete that will also book her passage back to America.  Elizabeth will accompany the precocious child Kathleen as the girl and her wealthy father travel from London to New York.On the Titanic, two males are attracted to Elizabeth.  First there is her current employer who admires how good she is with his daughter, but likes her for herself too.  Then there is Harry Palmer the magician who wants her.  However, as Elizabeth decides on what she wants with neither or one of the two men competing for her, crashing into an iceberg changes all thoughts of the future.Although there will be obvious comparisons to the Cameron Titanic movie, Phyllis A. Humphrey provides a fresh take on the disaster with a cautionary timely message to beware of prideful over-optimism (BP and Fukushima disasters).  Through the fine cast especially the heroine, readers will believe they are on board the unsinkable luxury liner; as that Cold April almost a century ago has become A Night To Remember (by Walter Lord).Harriet Klausner