01793cam a2200349 i 4500 872483982 TxAuBib 20230626120000.0 221018s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022048106 9780593440315 paperback 0593440315 paperback (OCoLC)1346152393 TxAuBib rda Gaynor, Hazel, author Last lifeboat. The last lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor. Last life-boat. First edition. New York : Berkley, 2023. 370 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Cover. Includes discussion questions. Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370). "1940, Kent. Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. 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, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily's humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder"-- Provided by publisher. 20230626. World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.