Charlotte Rogan – författare

DAGBOKEN SOM ÄR GRACES SISTA CHANS ATT FRIAS FÖR MORD1914 förliser oceanångaren Empress Alexandra. Efter att ha lämnat övriga passagerare att drunkna trängs 39 personer i en livbåt som är byggd att bära hälften. För att den unga Grace ska överleva måste andra sätta livet till.Med list och mod tar hon upp kampen om att härska i båten. En ödesdiger kamp som blottar människans allra mest basala känslor och instinkter såväl hos Grace som hos hennes medpassagerare.Livbåten är en psykologisk thriller berättad av en kvinna som är lika oförglömlig och komplex som de händelser hon beskriver. En mardrömsfärd som inte lämnar någon läsare oberörd."Psykologisk, välskriven spänning om överlevnad. En riktig höjdare!"Amelia Adamo, M-Magasin "En sensationellt bra bok. Mer ska inte avslöjas här läs och njut!"Borås Tidning "Det är en otroligt spännande bok."Sydsvenskan "Suggestiv berättelse om vad hotade människor kan göra. På listan över mina deckarfavoriter i år!"Lotta Olsson, Dagens Nyheter "En båt kommer lastad. Med vad? Filosofi, lidande och underhållning." Svenska Dagbladet "Den perfekta bokklubbsboken. Livbåten är ett bildmässigt drama som tar vid ungefär där Titanic slutade."Arbetarbladet Efter att i hemlighet ha skrivit hela sitt vuxna liv debuterade Charlotte Rogan hösten 2012 och toppade plötsligt försäljningslistorna i USA och Storbritannien. Få, om några böcker, har under de senaste åren fått samma hänförda gensvar av den amerikanska kritikerkåren. "Nästan olidligt spännande, du kommer att sluka den stående."The New York Times "Gripande. Få berättelser är så tänkvärda och fängslande som den här."Washington Post "En förförande enkel berättelse som utforskar människans alltför vanliga förmåga till självbedrägeri."J.M. Coetzee, Författare "The Lifeboat offers the kind of absorbing emotional experience that can only be found in fiction."Wall Street Journal "Rogan has found a voice that is both fresh and mysterious."Guardian "Riveting...The tension deliciously building as the passengers grow hungrier, thirstier, and more desperate."Oprah Magazine "An engrossing and impressive achievement."San Francisco Chronicle "A layered and provocative tale of survival and impossible decisions."Entertainment Weekly "Rogan crafts a harrowing, suspenseful take of survival.... The Lifeboat raises forever fascinating questions without moral posturing or sentimentality."USA Today "Extraordinary. It is that rare thing, a book that is as compelling as it is profound."The Sunday Times (UK) "The most remarkable achievement within The Lifeboat is how neatly it exceeds, and defies, expectations."Los Angeles Times "A complex and engrossing psychological drama."Publishers Weekly "A detailed and chokingly graphic novel."Boston Globe "An eerie, powerful debut you'll want to race through, but try to resist the urge. A slower read reveals a psychological depth that'll leave you thinking."People Magazine "Impressive, harrowing... Rogan writes viscerally about the desperate condition of the castaway ... But it's her portrait of Grace, who is by turns astute, conniving, comic and affecting, that drive the book."New York Times Book Review "Tantalizing ... A tremendously fast-paced read ... A psychological horror story, this novel makes a fine period piece ... Rogan steers The Lifeboat with a remarkably assured hand."Time Magazine

A gripping novel about what happens when one women stands up for her beliefsFrom the author of The Lifeboat and Now and Again 'Dazzling' - The Sunday Times 'All the ingredients of a tense thriller' - Red For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good - and a new-found taste for excitement - Maggie starts to see injustice everywhere. Soon, her bottom drawer is filled with 'evidence', her town has turned against her, and she must decide how far she will go for the truth.

I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six.In the summer of 1914, the Empress Alexandra, a magnificent ocean liner, suffers a mysterious explosion on its voyage from London to New York City. On board are Henry Winter, a rich banker, and his young new wife, Grace. Somehow, Henry manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for Grace. But the survivors quickly realize it is over capacity and could sink at any moment. For any to live, some must die.As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace watches and waits. She is a woman who has learned the value of patience - her journey to a life of glittering privilege has been far from straightforward. Now, she knows, it is in jeopardy, and her very survival is at stake. Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers on the lifeboat plot, scheme, gossip and console one another while sitting inches apart. Their deepest beliefs about goodness, humanity and God are tested to the limit as they begin to discover what they will do in order to survive. The Lifeboat is a page-turning story of moral dilemmas, and also the moving and haunting story of Grace, a woman as unforgettable and complicated as the story she recounts.