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“Many Years of Quiet Toil as a Novelist”
—The New York Times Journalist Julie Bosman on Charlotte’s transition at age 57 from closet writer to published author.
Goodreads interviews Charlotte
Click the link to read the Goodreads interview and learn more about the inspiration behind The Lifeboat.
The Sunday Times calls The Lifeboat “a magnificently layered book…”
“…with echoes of Joseph Conrad, Lord of the Flies and the Ancient Mariner. Rogan has waited until her fifties to publish her first novel and the wait has paid off. It is that rare thing — a book that is as compelling as it is profound.”
Justine Jordan of the guardian
calls The Lifeboat “a dark, brutal novel” that is also “vividly exciting, beautifully paced and surprisingly funny.” The complete review can be found here.
Robert McCrum of The Observer on The Lifeboat
“Perhaps only fiction can tackle the moral dilemmas braided into the survivor’s tale. A compelling and disquieting first novel, The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan (Virago), addresses this question with a rich, enthralling subtlety.” You can read the rest of the article here.
Events for The Lifeboat – March & April, 2012
March 15, 10:45 AM – Philadelphia, PA: The Public Library Association National Conference, Debut Author Panel March 29, 10:00 AM – Oxford, UK: The Oxford Literary Festival, New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat April 11, 6:00 PM – Stamford, CT: the Ferguson Library, Friends Author Series May 1, 12:00 Noon – Westport, CT: the […]
The Lifeboat has been shortlisted by Amazon for its Rising Stars promotion.
To view the Round 1 shortlist and to submit a review for The Lifeboat, please go to the Amazon Rising Stars webpage. Thanks for reading!
The Spectator reviews The Lifeboat
A terrific review in The Spectator calls The Lifeboat “a strangely wonderful book, like Moby Dick retold by Dorothy L. Sayers.” Click the link to read the entire review, but be warned that it is full of spoilers.
The Lifeboat earns a Kirkus star!
From Kirkus Reviews: “First-time novelist Rogan’s architectural background shows in the precision with which she structures the edifice of moral ambiguity surrounding a young woman’s survival during three weeks in a crowded lifeboat adrift in the Atlantic in 1914.” The rest of the review is available to subscribers on the Kirkus Reviews website and to […]
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