Wine and Cheese Reception
and Public Reading
 with

Charlotte Rogan

The New Haven Free Public Library is thrilled to welcome an exciting new literary talent, Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat. 

Author Reception
Please join Charlotte Rogan for a special pre-event Author 
Reception before her presentation.  Spend time with Charlotte and enjoy wine and cheese as we prepare to be dazzled. Tickets are $25.

Public Reading
Charlotte Rogan will read and present from her new novel The Lifeboat and answer questions.  Copies of The Lifeboat will be available for purchase and a book signing will immediately follow the reading. 

You will be intrigued, engaged and entertained!
 

The Lifeboat
Summer 1914.  Europe is verging on war as Grace Winter and her new husband set sail for New York.  As explosion sinks their ship, and Grace finds herself in an overloaded lifeboat.  After a harrowing three-week journey, Grace is finally rescued, only to be put on trial for her life.  Her attorneys suggest she write her story down.  The result is a page-turning tale of moral dilemmas, as well as a haunting portrait of an unforgettable and complicated woman.

"The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential.  I read it in one go."----Emma Donoghue, author of Room 

 "a daring, imaginative tour de force"---The Independent

Contact:  Clare Meade, cmeade@nhfpl.org, 203-946-7454