We all know the fated journey of the “unsinkable” Titanic. With an iconic movie and plenty of books, the mystery of the passengers, the rescue of survivors, there is much to fascinate.
The tale of the Carpathia is less known but I love the rescue mission it undertook to reach the survivors of Titanic. There is a NF book called Rescuing Titanic and it brilliantly shares the rescue mission from a different perspective.
Lindsay Galvin bravely tells the story of Clara and Rigel, characters who begin in cargo on the Carpathia but find themselves under the protection of the captain himself with their own first class cabin. Rigel is a bear of a Newfoundland dog, a swimmer, survivor and rescuer.
When Clara stows away to play a trick on her family, she cannot know the events that will take place, the dramatic ice field and knowledge that a ship has “floundered” with many souls lost, or the role she will play in the rescue.
An excellent story, so richly told and based on events leading up to and directly after the sinking of the Titanic.
I loved that there was a bit of fable and lore mixed in around a giant sea serpent, one that needed rescuing and perhaps saved some lives itself. Clara and the Captain have a shared interest here.
This story has it all- Superb characters, a story needing to be told and moments in history shared in with the next generation.
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