Not another novel where someone is fascinated by a family connection to Titanic, starts digging into the family cupboard and discovers a few waterlogged skeletons? Well yes, but this one's a little different as it's written by Louise Patten, CH Lightoller's granddaughter.
From the blurb:
This one's picked up a bit of news coverage as Patten's claiming Grandpa Lightoller covered up what really happened: QM Hichens panicked and turned hard to port rather than starboard as ordered by William Murdoch when the iceberg was sighted. The turn was corrected, but too late. Oh yes, and Ismay 'convinced' (not 'ordered') EJ Smith to keep sailing adding to the ship's woes. See: Revealed: the secret blunder that sank the Titanic
Well, that should help shift a few extra units, eh. The hardback, published by Quercus, was released in the UK on 23 September. I'll wait for the paperback.
From the blurb:
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Edie Quentance is the ugly duckling in a family of charming conformists. For generations, Quentance Bank has managed the wealth of its rich and aristocratic clients, and when Edie is pushed into joining the family bank, she finds the work very dull indeed. She passes the time trying to uncover the truth about her great-grandfather Kit, whose love of the sea she has inherited. Kit Quentance was rumoured to have carried a fortune into the Titanic lifeboat with him money that has never been found. Edie's excavations in the family archive unearth some shocking and far more recent secrets. She realises that Quentance Bank is not the paragon of old fashioned probity it pretends to be. As she tries to right her family's wrong-doings, Edie's position becomes increasingly dangerous. Her twin brother, her parents, her uncle she no longer knows whom she can trust.
This one's picked up a bit of news coverage as Patten's claiming Grandpa Lightoller covered up what really happened: QM Hichens panicked and turned hard to port rather than starboard as ordered by William Murdoch when the iceberg was sighted. The turn was corrected, but too late. Oh yes, and Ismay 'convinced' (not 'ordered') EJ Smith to keep sailing adding to the ship's woes. See: Revealed: the secret blunder that sank the Titanic
Well, that should help shift a few extra units, eh. The hardback, published by Quercus, was released in the UK on 23 September. I'll wait for the paperback.