The Titanic Sisters
A Riveting Story of Strength and Family
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November 23, 2020
Falvey (The Girls of Ennismore) delivers the enchanting saga of two Irish sisters who board the Titanic with dreams of new lives in New York City. In 1911, a letter arrives at the Sweeney home in County Donegal from a late cousin’s husband, requesting a governess for his daughter in New York. At 18, Delia Sweeney longs to escape, but her mother chooses Delia’s older sister, Nora. However, their reticent father secures Delia her own berth on the Titanic and work in New York as a maid. On their voyage, Delia wakes Nora after the ship begins to sink, but the sisters are separated in the ensuing chaos. Both survive, and, once in New York, Delia pretends to be Nora and takes the governess position. Meanwhile, Nora wakes in a New York City hospital without any memory of her identity and is taken in by a wealthy Irish suffragette. As Delia worries about the truth being discovered, Nora contends with a sexual predator in her new household. Falvey does a good job capturing the girls’ excitement at leaving Ireland for New York, and of showing Nora’s gradual recovery of her memories. This new chapter of Titanic lore is worth plunging into.
January 1, 2021
Falvey's engrossing historical novel charts the paths of two sisters as they journey from Ireland to early 1900's America. Elder Nora, outgoing and beautiful, is doted on by her mother, while timid Delia considers herself an outsider, preferring the companionship of books to people. When a request from New York City for a governess arrives, Nora is assigned the position, and Delia, eager to flee her mother as well as their small town, is recruited to work as a maid. The two embark on the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage. In the aftermath of the disaster, Nora is presumed dead and Delia takes on her sister's identity and post as governess. Though wracked with guilt, she forms a bond with the child under her care, Lily, and is drawn to Lily's father. Meanwhile, Nora survives the disaster but suffers from amnesia. As Nora pieces together the past, Delia must reconcile her actions with the pulls of her heart. With sharply drawn characters and shifting landscapes, Falvey's drama deftly explores the sisters' life-altering transformations and relationships as they come into their own.
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