This month Hella reviews the book The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White

The Glass Ocean is a joint project by authors Beatrice Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White. It is a historical fiction using the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 as the background. It is written in the voices of three women. Two of the women were on the doomed ocean liner and the third woman researches the tragic event and all the mystery around it in 2013.

In 1915 the two women aboard the Lusitania are of completely different social backgrounds. Caroline Hochstetter is traveling in first class and married to a very wealthy industrialist, Glbert Hochstetter. Her husband has become preoccupied with business, and some other endeavor that she can’t quite put her finger on. She is hoping a trip to England on the luxurious Lusitania will reconnect her with her husband, but she is unable to ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage.. … Read the full review

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