Review: An extraordinary narrative
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
I would have thought it impossible to breathe new life into the Titanic saga but Elizabeth Kaye has done it with Lifeboat No. 8. Her elegant voice evokes with crisp authority the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, the forlorn cries of the dying, and the stately manners of the ever-receding Edwardian age. The duties, tensions, and hypocrisies of class are all on display in that crowded lifeboat. Although history, the compression and poignance of Kaye's narrative bear comparisons with Stephen Crane's classic short story "The Open Boat."