Trevor D'Silva · 2017 · sea
Trevor D'Silva's historical saga, opening with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Rachel Williams survives the disaster, and a single choice between two fellow survivors who both love her sets off thirty years of consequences rippling through her family and across the world, against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, Prohibition, the Depression, and two world wars. The route follows the transatlantic life her choices set in motion.
- 1New York
Rachel Williams boards the great liner Lusitania at New York, bound for England as the Great War rages across the Atlantic.
- 2The Old Head of Kinsale
Off the southern coast of Ireland a German torpedo strikes the Lusitania, and amid the catastrophe Rachel survives, her life forever divided into before and after.
- 3London
Reaching wartime England, she is in time reunited with fellow survivors, and a choice between two suitors sets in motion a chain of fateful consequences.
- 4New York
Across thirty years, back and forth between America and Europe, through revolution, boom, depression, and war, the dominoes of that one decision fall, until Rachel must reckon with all it has cost.