Review: Very enjoyable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2012
There is a bit of a mild love interest that is involved between a Gentleman and the Governess that seems to be developing. This book is set on the Titanic in that fateful April and it looks at a slice of the lives of some of those that was travelling on Titanic. Mostly it focuses on a lonely Widower and a Governess who was hired by his wife that takes care of his daughter. For myself, having been a Widower it's striking a chord within me as I'm reading through the pages. It's quite well written in a fairly accessible writing style.Probably, for me the most interesting scene in the book is of flying a kite off of the back end of the Titanic as it's sailing along. I want to do that now on some other ship, it sounds like fun to me. Another scene that is also memorable is when the Gentleman compliments the Governess. While the particular compliment that was said wouldn't be taken as inappropriate now I could imagine it would have been in 1912. Victorian England was a rather segmented society back then. It's incredible to think now that there was anyone that you couldn't directly speak to but it was a hierarchical society then.