Seven days in May : a novel of the Lusitania : inspired by true events

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Seven days in May : a novel of the Lusitania : inspired by true events

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a novel of the Lusitania : inspired by true events

Statement of responsibility

Kim Izzo

Title variation

7 days in May

Creator

• Izzo, Kim

Subject

• Lusitania (Steamship) -- Fiction
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the buregoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead. In London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. She begins as a secretary, but it isn't long before her skills in codes and ciphers are called on, and she learns a devastating truth and the true cost of war. As the days of the voyage pass, these four lives collide in a struggle for survival as the Lusitania meets it deadly fate

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Literary form

non fiction