The Lifeboat - Tapa dura

Charlotte Rogan uses a deceptively simply narrative of shipwreck and survival to explore our all-too-human capacity for self-deception (J M Coetzee)

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)

The Lifeboat is a richly rewarding novel, psychologically acute and morally complex. It can and should be read on many levels, but it is first and foremost a harrowing tale of survival. And what an irresistible tale it is: terrifying, intense, and, like the ocean in which the shipwrecked characters are cast adrift, profound (Valerie Martin, winner of the Orange Prize for Property)

What a splendid book. It rivets the reader's attention, and at the same time it seethes with layered ambiguity. It's beautifully controlled and totally believable (Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize Winner of Wolf Hall)

Characters that haunt the imagination for days . . . All kinds of social and moral questions are raised. This fabulous first novel is almost unbearably exciting - you'll gulp it down in a single sitting (Kate Saunders The Times)

Extraordinary . . . Gripping narrative . . . A magnificently layered book with echoes of Joseph Conrad, Lord of the Flies and the Ancient Mariner . . . It is that rare thing - a book that is as compelling as it is profound (Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times)