Why a Booktrail?
1911, present day: Three sisters. Three ships. One heartbreaking story.
The Lost Sister
What you need to know before your trail
1911. As Emma packs her trunk to join the ocean liner Olympic as a stewardess, she dreams of earning enough to provide a better life for both her sisters. With their photograph tucked away in her luggage, she promises to be back soon – hoping that sickly Lily will keep healthy, and wild Ruby will behave. But neither life at sea nor on land is predictable, and soon the three sisters’ lives are all changed irrevocably…
Now. When Harriet finds her late grandmother’s travelling trunk in the attic, she’s shocked to discover a photo of three sisters inside – her grandmother only ever mentioned one sister, who died tragically young. Who is the other sister, and what happened to her? Harriet’s questions lead her to the story of three sister ships, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, and a shattering revelation about three sisters torn apart…
Locations
Reset- England - Southampton
- A: Southampton docks
- B: Titanic museum
- England - Isle of Wight
- C: Isle of Wight
- America/USA - NY
- D: New York City - Titanic Museum
- Greece - Moudros
- E: Moudros port
Travel Guide
A story of the Olympic, Titanic and Britannic,
The author writes that she heard of the existence of Titanic’s sister ships The Olympic and then the Britannic. The latter was a hospital ship during WW1 and had even hit a German mine.
Violet Jessop was a real person who served on all three ships and her memoirs were of great use to the author who used real events in them to bring Violet back to life. The disaster with the lifeboats and the image of Violet holding on to a stranger’s baby on one of the lifeboats are all real events. Even the story about her helping the injured sailor is true!
The high point of the RMS Olympic‘s career was on May 12, 1918, when it intentionally rammed and sank the German submarine U-103, which attempted to torpedo the Olympic.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Lost Sister
Destination/location: Southampton, New York City, Greece, Isle of Wight Author/guide: Kathleen McGurl Departure Time: 1911
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